A Framework of Blockchain Technology for Public Management in Brazil

Petroni, Benedito Cristiano Aparecido; Pfitzner, Mariana Savedra

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55746-1_7

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“…The option for the Brazilian context in this research is justified by the very fact that Brazil is one of the leading countries in the world in IT spending and represents about half of the total IT spending in Latin America. Besides, as Blockchain has evolved as a dominant technological paradigm in recent years, most organizations in Brazil have developed and used Blockchain applications both in the private sector [11,12] and in the public sector [12,13]. Thus, in this work, Brazil is considered a proxy for emerging markets that are taking advantage of Blockchain.…”

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Going beyond Cryptocurrencies: The Social Representation of Blockchain

Jóia

Vieira

2021

Sustainability

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This study investigates the social representation of Blockchain from the perspective of professionals in Brazil, herein considered as a proxy for emerging markets, and then compares the results found with the existing academic literature on the concept of Blockchain. To do that, the social representation theory was applied, operationalized through the words evocation technique. Security, bitcoin and decentralization were the categories located in the central nucleus of the social representation of Blockchain, while innovation, data, network, cryptocurrency, and technology were the categories located in the peripheral system. Based on the results obtained, there was a perceived strong association of Blockchain with bitcoin, one of its applications, and a dissonance between the existing academic literature and the perception of Brazilian professionals about the concept of Blockchain, as the latter is a privilege of the technical and operational issues of Blockchain to the detriment of its strategic potential. This dissonance can cause Blockchain initiatives to have results below expectations. Finally, Brazilian professionals did not realize the potential for inclusion of Blockchain in an emerging market such as Brazil and did not notice the need and relevance of a specific legal governance for Blockchain, an issue also forgotten by academia.

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