Overview of business innovations and research opportunities in blockchain and introduction to the special issue
By Leon Zhao, Shaokun Fan, Jiaqi Yan. Financial Innovation, 2016
465 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Blockchain has become a new frontier of venture capitals that has attracted the attention of banks, governments, and other business corporations. The recent blockchain related attempts included legal blockchains by Fadada.com and Microsoft and pork tracking blockchains by Walmart and IBM. Blockchain is poised to become the most exciting invention after the Internet; while the latter connects the world to enable new business models based on online business processes, the former will help resolve the trust issue more efficiently via network computing. In this paper, we give an overview on blockchain research and development as well as introduce the papers in this special issue. We show that while blockchain has enabled Bitcoin, the most successful digital currency, its widespread adoption in finance and other business sectors will lead to many business innovations as well as many research opportunities.
Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
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- A systematic literature review of blockchain-based applications: Current status, classification and open issues (2019, unknown): “Based on the intended audience, three generations of blockchains can be distinguished (Zhao et al., 2016):”
- Blockchain Technology as an Enabler of Service Systems: A Structured Literature Review (2017, background): “Although blockchain technology can be regarded as an emerging technology [28] and therefore still has room for improvement in terms of efficiency and technical aspects [12], its underlying characteristics can already be discussed.”
- Blockchain technology: Is it hype or real in the construction industry? (2020, methodology): “Though Blockchain was born with Bitcoin, its applications have gone far beyond Bitcoin and other digital currencies [87].”