Overview
- Offers a comprehensive overview of the new decentralized token economy based on asset tokenization and blockchains
- Includes case studies from a range of industries
- Provides insights from both leading scholars and practitioners
Part of the book series: Technology, Work and Globalization (TWG)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, leading practitioners and academics provide comprehensive coverage and novel insights into blockchains and the token economy. Real world case studies from a wide range of industries provide practical examples of blockchain-based tokens for real estate, logistics, insurance, recruitment, collectibles, reservations, metaverses, and more. The cases show how tokens provide an innovative way to create and transfer value without relying on traditional intermediaries. Readers will better understand the business and social benefits of tokenization, but also its challenges.
Chapter 3 and Chapter 8 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Reviews
“Blockchains and the Token Economy” is a must read for anyone trying to understand big concepts like decentralization, token economy, and digital assets. Skillfully, Mary and Horst have brought together both the practical and real with the theoretical and ‘work-in-progress’ use cases in a collaborative book, underscoring that blockchain technology is truly a ‘team sport’ technology.”
- Sandra Ro, CEO, Global Blockchain Business Council
“In Blockchain Revolution, we predicted that tokens, smart contracts and blockchains would transform nearly every industry. In Blockchains and The Token Economy...leading academic and practitioner authors show us that the token economy has arrived for everything from real estate and supply chains to NFTs and metaverses.”
- Alex Tapscott, Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute “If blockchain grows in about the same way that the cloud did, by 2030, around half of all new business contracts are likely to be done using smart contracts and digital tokens. Professors Lacity and Treiblmaier have established themselves as top experts in this space and this book gives you a sense of how the world of commerce is about to change dramatically.” - Paul Brody, Principal & Global Blockchain Leader, Ernst & Young
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mary C. Lacity is Walton Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas, USA.
Horst Treiblmaier is a Professor in International Management at Modul University Vienna, Austria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blockchains and the Token Economy
Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice
Editors: Mary C. Lacity, Horst Treiblmaier
Series Title: Technology, Work and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95108-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95107-8Published: 12 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95110-8Published: 13 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95108-5Published: 10 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-6623
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6631
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIII, 372
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations