We investigate whether distinctive features of the blockchain/cryptocurrency industry led to different completion rates of the announced mergers and acquisitions (M&As), relative to other industries, during the years 2013-2022. Despite having a significantly lower deal closure rate on average,...

Ludwig von Mises produced an impossibility theorem indicating that economic calculation in the absence of market prices was impossible. This gave rise to the ‘socialist calculation debate’ in the first half of the twentieth century. This paper makes use of the insights of that debate to shed...

Understanding the development trajectory of digital platforms is central to digital platform management. We propose to consider the multiple roles played by participants of blockchain platforms and demonstrate that adding this dimension significantly improves our understanding of platform...

This paper aims to solve the problems of low security and weak carbon-electricity linkage in traditional generation rights trading (GRT). Using transactional data of power generation enterprises of Chinese different provinces, we established a weakly centralized structure of GRT and introduced...

This study investigates the influence of blockchain and smart contracts on partners' trust, increasing visibility, competitiveness, and environmental performance when implemented in manufacturing supply chains. Partial least squares (PLS) was the main method used to test and verify the research...