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"Blockchain Research in Information Systems: Current Trends and an Inclusive Future Research Agenda"

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Aalto University, Finland, Rossi, Matti, Mueller-Bloch, Christoph, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Thatcher, Jason Bennett, University of Alabama, USA, Beck, Roman, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark·2019·Journal of the Association for Information Systems
DOI 10.17705/1jais.00571
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The potential of blockchain has been extensively discussed in practitioner literature, yet rigorous empirical and theory-driven information systems (IS) research on blockchain remains scarce. This special issue addresses the need for innovative research that offers a fresh look at the opportunities and challenges of blockchain. This editorial integrates and goes beyond the papers included in this special issue by providing a framework for blockchain research in IS that emphasizes two important issues. First, we direct the attention of IS research toward the blockchain protocol level, which is characterized by recursive interactions between human agents and the blockchain protocol. Second, we highlight the need for IS research to consider how the protocol level constrains and affords blockchain applications, and how these constraints and other concerns at the application level lead to changes at the protocol level. Rooted in a socio-material view of IS, we offer a multi-paradigmatic IS research agenda that underscores the need for behavioral (individual, group, and organizational), design science, and IS economics research on blockchain. Our research agenda emphasizes issues of blockchain governance, human and material agency, blockchain affordances and constraints, as well as the consequences of its use.

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Authors
Aalto University, F., Rossi, M., Mueller-Bloch, C., IT University of Copenhagen, D., Thatcher, J. B., University of Alabama, U., Beck, R., & IT University of Copenhagen, D.
Affiliations
IT University of Copenhagen (DK)
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Venue
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Published
2019
Pages
1388-1403
ISSN
1536-9323 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.17705/1jais.00571
OpenAlex
W2979098817
Cited by
182
References
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Language
en
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  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems (publishedVersion)
  • IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Information Technology Governance and Strategy
Keywords
blockchain, blockchain protocols, human-agent interaction, sociomaterial perspective, blockchain governance, design science, behavioral research, research agenda

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