This edited collection offers a number of contributions from leading scholars investigating Blockchain and its implications for business. Focusing on the transformation of the overall value chain, the sections cover the foundations of Blockchain, its drivers and barriers, business modelling and a range of examples from industry. Using a number of theoretical and methodological approaches, this innovative publication aims to further the cause of this ground-breaking technology and its use within information technology, supply chain and wider business management research.

Horst Treiblmaier is Professor and Head of the Department of International Management at MODUL University Vienna, Austria. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor at Purdue University, UCLA and UBC. His work has appeared in journals such asInformation Systems Journal,Structural Equation Modeling,Journal of Business Economics,Information& Management,Communications of the AIS,Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Schmalenbach Business Reviewand DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. He serves as an AE at AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction. His research interests include Blockchain, gamification, Physical Internet, e-commerce and methodological issues in social science research.

Roman Beck is Professorof IT Management and Leadership at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research spans the area of Information Systems, focusing on Services Science, IT Leadership and e-finance, including business processes, innovative information and communication systems. He has published in international journals such asMIS Quarterly,Journal of Information Technology andElectronic Markets, and contributed to a number of international conferences in the area of Information Systems. 

Blockchain Economic Networks: Economic Network Theory Systemic Risk and Blockchain Technology.- Blockchain Adoption: Technological, Organisational, and Environmental Considerations.- Blockchain-Based Decentralized Business Models in the Sharing Economy: A Technology Adoption Perspective.- Blockchain as a Platform.- Blockchain Technology: The Autonomy and Self-Organisation of Cyber-Physical Systems.- Bitcoin and Investment Portfolios.- Blockchain in the Payment Industry: Developing a Discussion Agenda Based on Pain Points and Opportunities.- Blockchain Initial Coin Offerings: Blockchains Implications for Crowdfunding.- Insurance under the Blockchain Paradigm.