[AISWorld] CFP Special Issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications for Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeBM) (Daning Hu)

[Hu Daning]

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Systems and e-Business
Management (ISeBM) on Blockchain Technology and Applications

Editors-in-Chief: J. Becker; M.J. Shaw

Guest Editors:
Hsing Kenneth Cheng, University of Florida
Daning Hu, Southern University of Science and Technology
Thomas Puschmann, University of Zurich
J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong

The notion of blockchain technology and its application in cryptocurrency
has attracted huge attention due to the recent Bitcoin hype. The Economist
article of October 31, 2015 called blockchain as the trust machine that
will change how businesses will run and how transactions will be conducted.
No other single technology has been so hyped in recent years, even the
Internet or the Web. The year of 2017 has witnessed a tidal wave in
business investments and government initiatives. Blockchain technology is a
new type of distributed database technology that has the potential to
revolutionize how transaction information is stored and managed in
networked markets and institutions.

One of the most promising blockchain applications is smart contract that
uses blockchain to record and enforce the rules digitally encoded in
contracts. It can automatically trigger the execution of such rules if
certain conditions are met and they are detected by the blockchain. This
approach can ensure the credibility of the contracts without involving
third parties or intermediaries and thus can largely reduce the transaction
costs.

Due to its capability in keeping decentralized records and providing
automated mechanisms to enforce contracts, blockchain has great potential
in various business applications, such as digital currencies, recording
public information such as birth certificates or legal documents. It not
only can change the technologies that support the secure and efficient
storage and processing of information, but may also transform the business
principles and processes embedded in traditional centralized organizations
and societies.  It is expected that blockchain and smart contract will
automate much of the clerical work in all types of organizations, thus
causing another wave of business redesign and reengineering.

There is no doubt that opportunities abound for scholars to systematically
study blockchain technology, particularly from the Information Systems (IS)
perspective. In this special issue on blockchain technology and
applications, we call for studies that adopt all IS research methods, such
as design science, behavioral science, and IS economics. Relevant topics
for this special issue may include (but not limited to):

• Blockchain technologies and applications
• Blockchain based business innovation
• Blockchain driven digital currencies
• Blockchain and smart contracts
• Blockchain induced redesign of business processes, models and
organizations.
• Blockchain and its impacts in public sectors
• Blockchain centric ecosystems and communities
• Business value of blockchain
• Acceptance of blockchain technologies in business organizations and among
individual users
• Privacy and security issues related to blockchain

Editorial Board:
Niklas Arvidsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Fergal Carton, University College Cork
Shaokun Fan, Oregon State University
Tim Alexander Herberger, Bamberg University
Lars Hornuf, University of Bremen
Siyuan Liu, Pennsylvania State University
Yipeng Liu, Northern Illinois University
Xiaowei Mei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mahdi Moqri, Iowa State University
Zhe Shan, Miami University
Jun Shen, University of Wollongong
Lijian Wei, Sun Yat-Sen university
Jiaqi Yan, Nanjing University

Important Dates:
March 30, 2019  Deadline for submission
July 30, 2018   First round of reviews completed
Oct 30, 2019  Deadline for revised papers
Jan 30, 2020  Second round reviews completed
Feb 15, 2020  Final editorial decisions on papers acceptance for the
special issue

All papers will be peer reviewed and must follow the standard guidelines
for manuscript preparation and submission posted on the ISeB website (
https://link.springer.com/journal/10257).

Contact for more information about this special issue:

Daning Hu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
hudn at sustc.edu.cn