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To Chain or Not to Chain? A Case from Energy Sector

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Information Systems (EMCIS 2018)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 341))

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During the last decade, Blockchain technology has attracted a lot of attention as it has the potential to disrupt the existing ecosystem and transform the way we do business. In this paper we investigate the energy supply chain and we examine the impact of the development of a blockchain solution in the area of solar energy. Our findings illustrate that blockchain technology can disrupt many areas of this sector including disruptions in the product, process, position and paradigm.

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  1. University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Marinos Themistocleous, Kypros Stefanou & Elias Iosif

  2. University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Marinos Themistocleous, Kypros Stefanou & Christos Megapanos

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Themistocleous, M., Stefanou, K., Megapanos, C., Iosif, E. (2019). To Chain or Not to Chain? A Case from Energy Sector. In: Themistocleous, M., Rupino da Cunha, P. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 341. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11395-7_3

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