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AUTHOR
Sondre Flovik
Drivers and barriers for blockchain adoption in organizations
Master's thesis Information Systems IS501 - University of Agder 2019
Determinants of Blockchain Technology Introduction in Organizations: an Empirical Study among Experienced Practitioners
Abstract Blockchain is expected to enable new types of interorganizational relationships, new approaches to governance and new approaches to settlement and clearing processes. Neverthless, although the interest on blockchain is on the rise, there are not many blockchain implementations in organizations and there is limited empirical research investigating the reasons for this. This paper contributes to filling this gap by investigating the following research question: what are the impeding and motivating factors for organizational blockchain adoption? Data were collected through a survey based on pairwise comparisons of key factors identified in the literature. The data collected were analy…