[AISWorld] CfP | ECIS 2022 | "The Token Economy - Blockchain Applications beyond FinTech"

[Horst Treiblmaier]

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit your research to “The Token Economy – Blockchain beyond FinTech” (Track 7, ECIS 2022). Please find the Call for Papers below.

Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions and forward the CfP to interested colleagues.

We are looking forward to your contributions and seeing you in Timisoara!

All the best,

Horst, Christoph, Claire, and Johann

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CALL FOR PAPERS

30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2022)

The Token Economy – Blockchain beyond FinTech (Track 7)

June 18-24, 2022, Timisoara, Romania (https://ecis2022.eu/tracks-description/)

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TRACK CHAIRS

·  Horst Treiblmaier, Modul University Vienna, Austria, horst.treiblmaier at modul.ac.at

·  Johann Kranz, LMU Munich, Germany, kranz at bwl.lmu.de

·  Christoph Mueller-Bloch, ESSEC Business School, muellerbloch at essec.edu

·  Claire Ingram Bogusz, Uppsala University, Sweden, Claire.ingrambogusz at im.uu.se

DESCRIPTION

Distributed ledger technologies enable the creation of cryptographic tokens, namely representations of tangible (e.g., real estate) or intangible (e.g., patent) assets as tokens that are easy to create and trade. A multitude of potential use cases are currently envisioned, and pilots are tested. However, numerous technical, organizational, and legal hurdles still exist which impede the widespread adoption of a token economy. Furthermore, acceptance among non-institutional end users is still low.
The emergence of a token economy thus leads to numerous important questions, ranging from a critical evaluation of the capabilities and limitations of tokens from a technical perspective to the transformation of economic and societal structures through the tokenization of business processes, real-world assets, and property rights. Additionally, legal and trust issues exist, which are exacerbated by the borderless nature of blockchain technologies.
To address these challenges, this track calls for academic research on blockchain-based tokens and their potential technical, economic and social implications. We invite innovative and relevant empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies as well as design-oriented research and conceptual/theoretical papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *       Token valuation, taxonomy, governance, voting, and regulation
  *       Token economy and new forms of economic organizing (e.g., cooperatives, decentralized platforms, public good provision)
  *       Token-based business models (e.g., non-fungible tokens) and use cases beyond finance
  *       Institutional and user acceptance of tokens
  *       Factors influencing the success of token-based business models
  *       The role and impact of tokens on venture capital (e.g., ICOs, STOs, IEOs)
  *       Macroeconomic implications of the token economy
  *       Incentive theory, mechanism design, contract theory for tokenization Security and privacy issues of tokens
  *       Cross-ledger interoperability
  *       Standardized tokens as network goods and source of value creation
  *       The impact of tokens on (de)centralization and transaction costs
  *       Sustainability implications of the token economy

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 17 November 2021

Notification of conditional acceptance: 28 February 2022

Final acceptance: 15 April 2022