Business Transformation Through Blockchain: Volume Ii

Edited 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 Department of International Management MODUL University Vienna Vienna, Austria Roman Beck Head of European Blockchain Center IT University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark ISBN 978-3-319-99057-6    ISBN 978-3-319-99058-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99058-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018959421 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Preface Volume II The second volume of Business Transformation through Blockchain contains four sections and an appendix. It starts with a selection of use cases from a variety of different industries, such as tourism, energy, the Internet of Things, and healthcare. In the following section on sustainability, several papers discuss the potential of the blockchain to create a more sustainable 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 sustainability and a circular economy but also include topics related to digital identity and e-government as well as banking for the unbanked. The section 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 first section, selected use cases from different industries are presented. Hor