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Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts
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Darcy W E Allen, Alastair Berg, Brendan Markey‐Towler
We apply institutional cryptoeconomics to the information problems in global trade, model the incentives under which blockchain-based supply chain infrastructure will be built, and make predictions about the future of supply chains. We argue blockchain may fundamentally change the patterns and dynamics of how, where and what we trade by: (1) facilitating new forms of economic organisation governing supply chain coordination (e.g. the V-form organisation) (2) shifting economic power towards the ends of supply chains (e.g. primary producers) by decreasing information asymmetries (3) de-commoditising goods and disaggregating price signals by changing the dimensions along which goods may be reliably differentiated and (4) lowering reliance on proxies (e.g. production within national borders) for the quality of goods.
Олександр Шаров
The cryptocurrency is a phenomenon of a modern payment system, however it is still unclear whether it is a new kind of currency at all. Most often, there are claims that this is just a financial pyramid. However, such statements do not explain the nature of cryptocurrency. In fact, from technical point of view, the cryptocurrency is simply a data chain, in which the first link contains information about its origin («mining»), and all subsequent ones - on the transition from one owner to another. This means that in the economic sense the cryptocurrency is the «bill of exchange», which is accompanied by a number of «transfer inscriptions» - «endorsements.» Nevertheless, banknotes are simple banker’s bills of exchange too. Therefore, cryptocurrency could become a new global currency if several specific requirements were fulfilled.
Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson, Jason Potts
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Claire Ingram, Marcel Morisse, Robin Teigland
The emerging digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin has made waves in mainstream media across the globe, as have the numerous extreme events that have rocked it. One such event, the bankruptcy of a prominent Bitcoin exchange called Mt.Gox, particularly shocked the emerging sociotechnical field. However, it is not clear how the numerous entrepreneurial firms operating in this field survived this shock. \\ \\ Studies of resilience in the face of extreme events have typically examined mature firms, characterised by formal structures and some slack resources. In such studies, the resilience, adaptability and trans-formability of the firm come into view. A new firm in an emergent field, however, is equally driven to survive â but must do so with far more limited resources, without a formal structure and little in the way of organisational learning. In our study, we find that such entrepreneurial firms rely on their col-lective identity in forming resilient responses. Furthermore, one outcome of this shock was a call for regulations and oversight â despite earlier dogmatic rejections of such formal control. \\ \\ Keywords: Bitcoin, Entrepreneurship, Resilience, Extreme Event, Qualitative Study \\
Dmitri Kosten
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Marc Pilkington
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