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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Hanseatic Governance: Understanding Blockchain as Organizational Technology
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Gianluca Miscione
  • Tobias Goerke
  • Stefan Klein
  • Gerhard Schwabe
  • Rafael Ziolkowski
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Event Title Fortieth International Conference on Information Systems
Event Type conference
Event Location Munich
Event Start Date December 15 - 2019
Event End Date December 18 - 2019
Place of Publication Munich, Germany
Publisher Blockchain as Organizational Technology
Abstract Text Blockchain technology provides a distributed ledger and is based on a logic of peer to peer authentication. It gained prominence with the rise of cryptocurrencies but provides a much broader field of possible applications. While it has been originally closely linked to a libertarian agenda rejecting organizations, its developments have illustrated that this ideological framing is being reversed in practice. Based on contrastive empirical cases, the purpose of our paper is to discuss blockchain as an organizational technology. Its peculiar mode of governance, which we name ‘Hanseatic’, needs to mediate between the fluidity typical of Free and Open Source Software development and the immutability that use organizations adopt blockchain for.
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