Designing trust-enabling blockchain systems for the inter-organizational exchange of capacity

Today's Information Systems (IS) design research projects pursue digital innovation to conquer complex societal challenges. Many of these projects reach out beyond disciplinary and organisational boundaries, as evident in interdisciplinary consortia and academia‐industry collaboration. The design activities in each project differ based on contextual requirements and the team's underlying design logic. As diversity increases, shared understanding is essential for project success. Established design research methodologies need complementary tools to support design researchers in configuring their design activities and representing them faithfully, dimensions that contribute to a shared understanding. This article presents Baustein as an instance of such design tools. Baustein is tailorable to the contextual requirements of each design research project, comprising an ensemble of card‐deck, ready‐made configurations, and a manual. To ensure theoretical and practical relevance, the design of Baustein is based on primary empirical data (workshop and interviews with 16 IS design researchers) and a literature analysis of 99 published IS design research projects. We demonstrate its proof‐of‐value through three main evaluation episodes, altogether involving over 110 IS design researchers. With Baustein, design research teams can balance the trade‐off between creative messiness and standardised configurations of design activities.

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A Blockchain-based Reputation System for Trust Management in Collaborative Multi-Stakeholder Settings

Miranda,

Garcia,

Ueyama

et al. 2024

Anais Do VII Workshop Em Blockchain: Teoria, Tecnologias E Aplicações (WBlockchain 2024)

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Organizations collaborate in industrial networks to share business risks, innovate, and deliver value-added products and services, relying on trust management. However, mistrust among stakeholders arises due to a lack of information transparency, coordination issues, and incentive misalignment. To overcome this problem, this work proposes a decentralized reputation system based on blockchain, smart contracts, and tokenization. Particularly, we address the problem of selecting partners for multi-stakeholder production through their token-based reputation. Our proof-of-concept evaluation results show that the proposed system is agnostic for Ethereum Virtual Machine-based (EVM) blockchains with low computational overhead.

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Designing trust-enabling blockchain systems for the inter-organizational exchange of capacity

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A Blockchain-based Reputation System for Trust Management in Collaborative Multi-Stakeholder Settings

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