[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2019 Mini-track on Strategic Implications of Blockchain, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things (IoT)

[danjongkim at gmail.com]

Call for Papers for Mini-track at AMCIS 2019

 

August 15 - 17, 2019, Cancun, Mexico

 <https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org> https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org

 

Mini-track Title: Strategic Implications of Blockchain, Bitcoin, and the
Internet of Things (IoT) 

Track: Strategic and Competitive Uses of Information Technology 

 

Mini-track Description

It is widely speculated that the Blockchain distributed data architecture
will be both important and disruptive with wide ranging applications. The
Blockchain structure takes advantage of cryptography, redundancy, and
self-validation to create an amazingly robust, secure, and potentially
anonymous distributed data structure. The security of the Blockchain
structure has been proven in the extreme environment of cryptocurrency,
where it serves as the backbone of Bitcoin. While Bitcoin has become a
legitimate currency accepted in thousands of stores, its true test of data
security is that it has been accepted in some of the least reputable
transactions in the world. Bitcoin is sometimes called a "trustless"
technology, not because it is trustworthy, but because it reduces or
eliminates the need for parties to trust each other and the need for banks,
governments, or other 3rd parties to verify data and transactions. 

The ability to have absolute confidence in data and transactions without a
centralized clearinghouse can radically affect accounting, auditing, risk
management, information systems, banking, financial services, national
sovereignty, currency markets, supply chains, marketing, and privacy.
Blockchain may also provide an appropriate backbone for the much heralded
"internet of things (IoT)." Future IoT applications will depend more heavily
on the level of trust between devices and people. Papers in this mini-track
would investigate the role of blockchain as an enabling technology for
financial transactions, cryptocurrencies, and the proliferation of the
Internet of Things. A wide range of theoretical perspectives and research
methods are welcome within this mini-track.

 

More information is available at  <https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/>
https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/  or by contacting the mini-track
chairs.

 

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Full paper submissions (<5000 words, excluding references, tables, and
figures) and Emergent Research Forum (ERF) papers (<3500 words, excluding
references, tables, and figures) must be electronically submitted through
Manuscript Central. Papers will be peer reviewed using a double-blind
system.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

1.     January 7, 2019: Manuscript Central system opens for paper
submissions 

2.     March 1, 2019: Deadline for paper submissions at 10:00am PST

3.     April 15, 2019: Paper decisions

4.     April 24, 2019: Deadline for camera-ready submissions

 

MINI-TRACK CHAIRS

Dan J. Kim              University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
(dan.kim at unt.edu) 

Chris Maurer           University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA (
<mailto:csm9y at comm.virginia.edu> csm9y at comm.virginia.edu) 

Obiageli Ogbanufe Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
(obi.ogbanufe at okstate.edu)