Information for efficient decision making : big data, blockchain and relevance

Preface -- About the editor -- About the contributors -- A brief introduction to blockchain economics / Long Chen, Lin William Cong and Yizhou Xiao -- Data fiduciary in order to alleviate principal - agent problems in the artificial big data age / Julia M Puaschunder -- Blockchain technology adoption decisions: developed vs. developing economies / Alnoor Bhimani, Kjell Hausken and Sameen Arif -- A discussion on decentralization in financial industry and monetary system / Alfred Ruoxi Zhang, Farrokh Zandi and Henry Kim -- Raising funds with smart contracts: new opportunities and challenges / Katrin Tinn -- The blockchain evolution and revolution of accounting / Kimberlyn George and Panos N Patatoukas -- What accountants need to know about blockchain / Michael Alles and Glen L Gray -- Management control and information, communication and technologies: a bidirectional link - the case of granarolo / Sebastiano Cupertino, Paolo Taticchi and Gianluca Vitale -- A brave new world: the use of non-traditional information in capital markets / Partha S Mohanram -- Analyzing textual information at scale / Lin William Cong, Tengyuan Liang, Baozhong Yang and Xiao Zhang -- Blockchain-enabled supply chain transparency, supply chain structural dynamics, and sustainability of complex global supply chains - a text mining analysis / Pankaj Kumar Medhi -- Blockchain solutions for agency problems in corporate governance / Wulf A Kaal -- Economics of cryptocurrencies : artificial intelligence, blockchain, and digital currency / J D Agarwal, Manju Agarwal, Aman Agarwal and Yamini Agarwal -- Developing blockchain-based carbon accounting and decentralized climate change management system / Qingliang Tang and Lie Ming Tang -- Usefulness of corporate carbon information for decision-making / Rong He, Le Luo and Qingliang Tang -- Motivating innovation and creativity : the role of management controls / Shelley Xin Li and Kenneth A Merchant -- Board governance and information quality / Bin Srinidhi -- Evolving standards of fair value and acquisition accounting / Stephen Bryan, Steven Lilien, Bharat Sarath and Yan Yan -- Evolving blockchain applications : multiple semantic models and distributed databases for blockchain data reuse / Daniel E O'Leary -- Have accounting reports become less useful for decision-making? / Joshua Ronen -- Value of fixed asset usage information for efficient operation : a nontraditional view / Kashi R Balachandran -- Role of blockchain, ai and big data in healthcare industry / Prashant Sharma, Shikha Mehra and Pankaj Gupta -- Index.