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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Decision Problems in Blockchain Governance: Old Wine in New Bottles or Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes?
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Rafael Ziolkowski
  • Gianluca Miscione
  • Gerhard Schwabe
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Management Information Systems
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0742-1222
Volume 37
Number 2
Page Range 316 - 348
Date 2020
Abstract Text Blockchain comes with the promise of being a disruptive technology with the potential for novel ways of interaction in a wide range of applications. Following broader application, scholarly interest in the technology is growing, though an extensive analysis of blockchain applications from a governance perspective is lacking to date. This research pays special attention to the governance of blockchain systems and illustrates decision problems in 14 blockchain systems from four application domains. Based on academic literature, semi-structured interviews with representatives from those organizations, and content analysis of grey literature, common problems in blockchain governance have been singled out and contextualized. Studying their enactment revealed their relevance to major organizational theories in what we labelled “Patrolling the borders,” “External Legitimation,” “Reduction of Discretionality,” and “Temporal Management.” The identification of these problems enriches the scarce body of knowledge on the governance of blockchain systems, resulting in a better understanding of how blockchain governance links to existing concepts and how it is enacted in practice.
Official URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421222.2020.1759974?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Digital Object Identifier 10.1080/07421222.2020.1759974
Other Identification Number merlin-id:19539
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