Pervasive Decentralisation of Digital Infrastructures: A Framework for Blockchain enabled System and Use Case Analysis

By Florian Glaser. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2017

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Technological innovation and consequential decentralisation are driving forces in the ongoing evolution and increasing openness of digital infrastructures and services. One of the most discussed and allegedly disruptive innovations is the distributed database technology referred to as blockchain. Although it is still in its technological infancy, experimental adoption and customization seem to be in full progress in various potential fields of application ranging from decentralized grids for computation and storage to global financial services. However, the technology and its path of development still entail a lot of common unknowns for practitioners and researchers alike. Especially regarding the question how the technology could amend or be incorporated into the existing landscape of digital services, processes and infrastructures. Hence, in this article we develop an ontology that (1) clearly delineates common terminology, core concepts and components, their relationships as well as innovative features of blockchain technology. It further (2) connects these insights with implications for relevant types of digital market models. Our framework is of high theoretical and practical value as it provides researchers and practitioners a common basis for communication and means for guided analysis of blockchain applicability.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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A Survey on Consensus Mechanisms and Mining Strategy Management in Blockchain Networks (2018, background): “changer’’ [8] in decentralization of digital infrastructures ranging from the financial industry [4] to a broad domain including Internet of Things (IoTs) [9] and self-organized network orchestration [10].”
A Survey of Blockchain From the Perspectives of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities (2019, background): “Blockchain is a trustless system that provides trust through the functions that propagate all the activities within the network [24].”
A Blockchain-Based Smart Contract System for Healthcare Management (2020, unknown): “If an attacker tries to change any of the keys, the local register will immediately cease to be valid because the hash values inside the next blocks headers will be completely di ﬀ erent depending on the hash function mechanism [33,34].”
A Blockchain Research Framework (2017, methodology): “Prior work fruitfully reviewed and synthesized technical research on protocol improvements, primarily with implications for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (Glaser and Bezzenberger 2015; Morisse 2015; Tschorsch and Scheuermann 2016; Yli-Huumo et al. 2016).”
Blockchain-Enabled Smart Contracts: Architecture, Applications, and Future Trends (2019, background): “Glaser [11] developed a comprehensive conceptual framework of blockchain systems and further divided blockchain systems into two layers of code,”
Blockchain technology in supply chain management for sustainable performance: Evidence from the airport industry (2020, background): “Although previous studies on the adoption of blockchain technology have highlighted its benefits in overcoming trust-related issues (Glaser, 2017), on the other side, it does not seem to eliminate the need for trust between partners in sharing data and information (Hawlitschek, Notheisen, & Teubner,”
Governance in the Blockchain Economy: A Framework and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Blockchain can be described as a decentralized, transactional database technology that facilitates validated, tamper-resistant transactions that are consistent across a large number of network participants called nodes (Glaser, 2017).”
Unearthing the determinants of Blockchain adoption in supply chain management (2020, background): “BC has been deﬁned as a way for businesses, industries and public organisations to transact and verify the transactions near real-time via a distributed ledger publicly without relying on central authority (Glaser 2017).”