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2020 •
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The Blockchain Revolution: Insights from Top-Management
Chrysostomos Filippou
This is an exploration of Blockchain technology that is growing in popularity and it seems to be able to disrupt a plethora of industries. A research is being conducted to examine Blockchain's potential to be adopted by enterprises from different sectors as well as the parameters that could affect its adoption. Mostly known as the technology that underpins Bitcoin, this concept raised a significant interest within various markets. Blockchain offers a new approach to valued information management and sharing and it is introduced as a solution against the inefficiencies that affect the industry. Experts, infrastructure providers and banks can now work on this technology and explore its uses. This is a new technology journey with obstacles that will need to be overcome and it can not be clear yet what will eventually arise. Professionals from around the world express their views on the adoption of Blockchain by organisations and how these plan to support its deployment. Thoughts are shared in terms of the required budget and the parameters that can impact its adoption. There is a great interest in Blockchain technology and its revolutionary potential to modernize the world economy and this is only the beginning.
Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics
Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, the Relevance for Business Ethics
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Taking Blockchain Seriously
Robert Herian
In the present techno-political moment it is clear that ignoring or dismissing the hype surrounding blockchain is unwise, and certainly for regulatory authorities and governments who must keep a grip on the technology and those promoting it, in order to ensure democratic accountability and regulatory legitimacy within the blockchain ecosystem and beyond. Blockchain is telling (and showing) us something very important about the evolution of capital and neoliberal economic reason, and the likely impact in the near future on forms and patterns of work, social organization, and, crucially, on communities and individuals who lack influence over the technologies and data that increasingly shape and control their lives. In this short essay I introduce some of the problems in the regulation of blockchain and offer counter-narratives aimed at cutting through the hype fuelling the ascendency of this most contemporary of technologies.
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain. Eds. Ruth Catlow et al. London: Torque & Furtherfield
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the Blockchain* (*But Were Afraid to Ask Mel Ramsden)
2017 •
Martin Zeilinger
This short chapter reflects critically on the potentials and pitfalls that arise when art is moved onto/into decentralised and dematerialised contexts (such as the blockchain); the discussion considers this development in the context of the financialisation and hyper-commodification experienced by conceptual artists in the 1960s and onwards. Please consider buying the full book at https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/100826.
Eureka
2017 •
Thomas Zweifel, Theodore Chartier-Rueg
The Internet provided the world with interconnection. But it did not provide trust. Trust is lacking everywhere in our society and is the reason for the existence of powerful intermediaries aggregating power. This has consequences for organizations: They are inefficient because time, energy, and money are wasted on verifying, monitoring and policing contracts and transactions. Managers play the role of intermediaries: They connect experts with each other and instruct them what to do. As a result, people engagement is low because no one is there to inspire and empower them. In other words, our society faces an unprecedented lack of leadership. Given these shortcomings, this article explores the potential repercussions, especially in the context of management, of implementing a Blockchain infrastructure in any type of organization. Blockchain technology seems to be able to remedy to those issues, for this distributed and immutable ledger provides security, decentralization and transparency. In the context of a blockchain economy, the findings show that value creation will be rearranged, with experts directly collaborating with each other and hierarchy being eliminated. This could, in turn, render managers obsolete, as a blockchain infrastructure will automate most of the tasks. As a result, only strong, action-oriented leadership would maintain alignment in the organization. This Leadership-In-Action would consist in building strategy alignment; empowering people to take action; and coaching members of the organization to maximize innovation and productivity.
IAEME PUBLICATION
BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY: THE NEW AVATAR IN THE WORLD OF BANKING AND FINANCE
2020 •
IAEME Publication
Financial technology often abbreviated as fintech relates to the adaption of technological advancement and innovation in the delivery of financial services. AI’s application is seldom restricted to a few domains and is slowly capturing every process under its gamut. It is firmly implanted and entwined inthe personal lives of individuals by encompassing the functions of customer relationship and service, finance management, sales and marketing as well as administrative and technical domains. AI and blockchain are the two major disruptive technologies which dominate the world of business in this millennia. The real challenge of fintech adoption is the ecosystem required for its implementation and use. The conceptual paper is an attempt to explore the existing data with respect to the present scenario, the future prospects, the roadblocks and the path ahead for blockchain in banking and financial services
Blockchain - A Disruptive Technology In Financial Assets - IRE Journals
2019 •
Betty Jepkemei
Inside the Black Blocks: A policymaker’s introduction to blockchain, distributed ledger technology and the “Internet of Value”
Michael C Urban
When Bitcoin was in the news earlier this year, little attention was paid to the blockchain technology that underpins it. This is unfortunate as blockchain’s emergence has important implications far beyond cryptocurrency. Our new report cuts through the hype to take an in-depth look at this technology, and analyze its promises and perils for Canadian governments.
