Blockchain technology is a system of creating an immutable, secure, distributed database of transactions. Blockchains were initially created to provide a distributed ledger of financial transactions that did not rely upon a central bank, credit company, or other financial institution. The...

Blockchain is a technology with disruptive, transformative and even revolutionary power, but currently its application faces many barriers: technological, governance, organizations and societal. A significant amount of knowledge from both the blockchain and related fields is available, but there...

The use of blockchain technology in private investment funds is proliferating. Using a dataset of private investment fund advisers that utilize blockchain technology (N=120), we explore the core commonalities and differences in the use of blockchain technology between European and American fund...

This article proposes a decentralized solution towards capping greenhouse gas emissions by utilizing blockchain-based technology that will allow teams of academics to issue carbon credits as cryptocurrency. Ideally, these "Crypto Carbon Credits" will be issued to individuals and organizations...

This short opinion piece discusses the potential role of blockchain in the 4th industrial revolution. It explores how Satoshi Nakamoto (2008) white paper has changed the way market functions with the examples of bitcoin, public blockchain, private blockchain and Initial Crypto-Token Offering...

Blockchain technology innovation is proliferating in the private investment fund industry. Using a hand-selected dataset of private investment fund advisers that utilize blockchain technology in various functions (N=120), this article shows that the private fund advisers who utilize blockchain...

This article gives a very general introduction to the technology, promises and limitations of blockchain technology --- popularized by the digital currency Bitcoin and a key force behind the surge of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain acts as a distributed database or joint global register of all...

The nascent blockchain literature has singled out the emergence of new blockchain applications and non-financial use cases in a wide range of areas, such as tourism. In this paper, we push the reflection further by addressing the issue of the promotion of new tourism destinations with a special...