[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in IS @ ECIS'2020

[Rossi Matti]

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in IS track
    
CALL FOR PAPERS ECIS’2020
    
European Conference on Information Systems,  June 15-17, 2020, 
Marrakech, Morocco
https://ecis2020.ma/ecis-2020-tracks/    

Call for Contributions

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies challenge prevailing myths concerning supremacy of centralised computing architectures and offer new opportunities for developing radically new transactional digital services for private and public sector. Not only does blockchain have the potential to offer new transparency, but also to reduce the time for settlement and finalization, which is important in the context of title transfers, securities trading and so on. At the same time, the new technology architecture has been criticised as being ‘unnecessary’ or ‘unfit’ to deal with real issues in finance and beyond, especially due to its weak governance arrangements in ‘permissionless’ platforms and issues around transparency and irreversibility of transactions which can be challenging in the context of payments. 
    
We are especially interested on research related to the new peerless platforms and distributed autonomous organizations (DAOs) and their effect on business ecosystems as well research that follows up whether and how anticipated commercial success materializes and is measured. Answering these questions is pivotal from the perspectives of business research and policy making.
    
TOPICS

    Topics for this track include, but are not limited to the following:
    ·         Novel approaches to development of blockchain applications
    ·         New application areas of blockchain
    ·         Blockchain and other open platform technologies, such as Ethereum, Hyperledger and Corda
    ·         Blockchain platform governance and standards
    ·         Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Libra)
    ·         ICOs
    ·         Smart contracts
    ·         DAOs
    ·         Emerging blockchain ecosystem analyses
    ·         Other emergent payment and transaction platforms
    ·         Blockchain development methods
    ·         Permissionless and permissioned architectures
    ·         Permissioning of nodes
    ·         Traditional databases and blockchains
    ·         Tokenization and token-based economy
     
TRACK CHAIRS

    Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Helsinki
    Markos Zachariadis, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
    Juho Lindman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
     
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
     
    David Noble
    Horst Treiblmaier
    Enrico Rossi
    Garrick Hileman
    Grace Fox
    Michel Avital
    Rikard Lindgren
    Erol Kazan
    Johan Magnusson
     
    IMPORTANT DATES
     
    Submission deadline: November 29, 2019
    Notification of acceptance: End of February, 2020
     
    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
    https://ecis2020.ma/call-for-papers-and-panels/
     
     
    Matti Rossi
    Professor of Information Systems Science
    Aalto University School of Business
    Department of Information and Service Management
    P.O. Box 21220, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
    Visiting address Ekonominaukio 1 Room V209, Espoo
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    email: matti.rossi at aalto.fi
    Mobile: +358-50-3835503, Skype: motrossi