The Rise of Blockchains: Disrupting Economies and Transforming Societies - Hardcover

Kshetri, Nir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 180220816X ISBN 13: 9781802208160

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

Timely and invigorating, this book explores how blockchain technology is disrupting economies and transforming societies. It offers detailed insights into the synergistic and complementary effects of blockchain and other new and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, satellite imagery and digital twins.

The Rise of Blockchains highlights how the developments of ecosystems around blockchain are helping to realize the potential of this technology to act as a ‘trust machine’ across more contexts and settings. Multidisciplinary in both scope and perspectives, the book looks at blockchain’s potential for impacting challenges in supply chain management, security, privacy and compliancy issues, and transforming payment and settlement systems. It further provides insights into the opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain adoption by organizations.

With a focus on both theoretical and practical knowledge related to blockchain, this will be an important read for business and management scholars, particularly those focusing on organization studies, information systems, and supply chain management. It will also be a useful book for economics students and economists working with cryptocurrencies.

About this title

About the Author

Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, Department of Management, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, US

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 180220816X
• ISBN 13: 9781802208160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216