Table Of ContentEdited by
Horst Treiblmaier · Roman Beck
Business
Transformation
through Blockchain
Volume II
Business Transformation through Blockchain
Horst Treiblmaier • Roman Beck
Editors
Business
Transformation
through Blockchain
Volume II
Editors
Horst Treiblmaier Roman Beck
Department of International Management Head of European Blockchain Center
MODUL University Vienna IT University of Copenhagen
Vienna, Austria Copenhagen, Denmark
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Preface Volume II
Te second volume of Business Transformation through Blockchain con-
tains four sections and an appendix. It starts with a selection of use cases
from a variety of diferent industries, such as tourism, energy, the Internet
of Tings, and healthcare. In the following section on sustainability, sev-
eral papers discuss the potential of the blockchain to create a more sus-
tainable economy, ranging from a circular economy to questioning the
economic growth paradigm as such. Societal impacts, which are closely
connected to the preceding section, also deal with issues such as sustain-
ability and a circular economy but also include topics related to digital
identity and e-government as well as banking for the unbanked. Te sec-
tion on legal issues concludes this second volume by investigating whether
smart contracts are a threat for the legal industry and how the blockchain
might impact intellectual property management.
In the frst section, selected use cases from diferent industries are pre-
sented. Horst Treiblmaier and Irem Önder use data from expert interviews
to create a theory-based blockchain research framework for the tourism
industry. Jens Strüker, Simon Albrecht, and Stefan Reichert have a close
look at the energy sector and present some ideas on how blockchain
might potentially impact this sector in the not-so-far-of future. Chun-
Feng Liao, Chien-Che Hung, and Kung Chen examine the state of the art
of the Internet of Tings and consider design issues regarding blockchain
integration from a software architecture perspective. In the second paper
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on the Internet of Tings, authors Daniel Burkhardt, Patrick Frey, Simon
Hiller, Alexander Nef, and Heiner Lasi argue that distributed ledgers will
enable new opportunities to replace existing components on all layers of
industrial IT architecture. Sachin Shetty, Xueping Liang, Daniel Bowden,
Juan Zhao, and Lingchen Zhang present a mobile healthcare system for
personal health data collection, sharing, and collaboration between indi-
viduals and healthcare providers, as well as insurance companies. Te
section about sustainability starts with Marcus Dapp, who argues for a
new economic approach that has sustainability built into its core design
by using cryptoeconomics based on blockchain technology to create
incentive systems which encourage sustainable behavior. Dave Leonard
and Horst Treiblmaier question the economic growth paradigm and ask
the question whether cryptocurrencies can help to create a more sustain-
able economy. In the society section, Niels Faber and Jan Jonger address
the question of how blockchain can be used to address societal changes
and present a framework that helps to decouple assets and impacts. Clare
Sullivan and Eric Burger examine the legal and technical implications of
the application of blockchain technology to authenticate and verify iden-
tity for e-Government services and transactions. Guillermo Jesús Larios-
Hernández and Almendra Ortiz-de-Zarate-Béjar elaborate on blockchain’s
decentralized approach to trust and how it can help to create trust in
fnancial services among the unbanked. Te section on legal issues is
opened by Bernhard Waltl, Christian Sillaber, Ulrich Gallersdörfer, and
Florian Matthes who investigate how blockchain can potentially disrupt
the legal industry by diferentiating between various pillars of the system.
Kensuke Ito and Marcus O’Dair examine the application of blockchain
technology to intellectual property management. Finally, this volume
includes an appendix from Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Philipp
Schindler, and Edgar Weippl in which some central blockchain concepts
are explained in a manner that is easy to understand.
It is too early to predict what the future will look like, given the novelty
of blockchain. However, it can be expected that in the years to come we
will hear about spectacular failures, amazing success stories, and unex-
pected use cases. It is therefore even more important that academics start
to rigorously investigate this feld and partner with practitioners in order
to systematically investigate the potentials and pitfalls of blockchain
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t echnology. Te two volumes of this book aim to support both academics
and practitioners in better understanding potential implications of block-
chain and in developing new ideas, innovations, and maybe even surpris-
ing new use cases. It will be an interesting journey, but one that has the
potential to change business and society as we know them.
Vienna, Austria Horst Treiblmaier
Copenhagen, Denmark Roman Beck
Contents
Part I S elected Use Cases 1
1 T e Impact of Blockchain on the Tourism Industry: A
Teory-Based Research Framework 3
Horst Treiblmaier and Irem Önder
2 B lockchain in the Energy Sector 23
Jens Strüker, Simon Albrecht, and Stefan Reichert
3 B lockchain and the Internet of Tings: A Software
Architecture Perspective 53
Chun-Feng Liao, Chien-Che Hung, and Kung Chen
4 D istributed Ledger Enabled Internet of Tings Platforms:
Symbiosis Evaluation 77
Daniel Burkhardt, Patrick Frey, Simon Hiller, Alexander Nef,
and Heiner Lasi
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5 B lockchain-Based Decentralized Accountability and
Self-Sovereignty in Healthcare Systems 119
Sachin Shetty, Xueping Liang, Daniel Bowden, Juan Zhao, and
Lingchen Zhang
Part II S ustainability 151
6 T oward a Sustainable Circular Economy Powered by
Community-Based Incentive Systems 153
Marcus M. Dapp
7 C an Cryptocurrencies Help to Pave the Way to a More
Sustainable Economy? Questioning the Economic Growth
Paradigm 183
David Leonard and Horst Treiblmaier
Part III S ociety 207
8 A t Your Service: How Can Blockchain Be Used to Address
Societal Challenges? 209
Niels Faber and Jan Jonker
9 B lockchain, Digital Identity, E-government 233
Clare Sullivan and Eric Burger
10 B lockchain Entrepreneurship and the Struggle for Trust
Among the Unbanked 259
Guillermo Jesús Larios-Hernández and Almendra
Ortiz-de-Zarate-Béjar
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Part IV L egal Issues 285
11 B lockchains and Smart Contracts: A Treat for the Legal
Industry? 287
Bernhard Waltl, Christian Sillaber, Ulrich Gallersdörfer, and
Florian Matthes
12 A Critical Examination of the Application of Blockchain
Technology to Intellectual Property Management 317
Kensuke Ito and Marcus O’Dair
Part V A ppendix 337
13 B lockchain: Basics 339
Aljosha Judmayer, Nicholas Stifter, Philipp Schindler, and Edgar
Weippl
I ndex 357
