Jens Hunhevicz
The promise of blockchain for the construction industry: a governance lens.
Hunhevicz, Jens; Dounas, Theodoros; Hall, Daniel M.
Authors
Theodoros Dounas
Daniel M. Hall
Contributors
Theodoros Dounas
Editor
Davide Lombardi
Editor
Abstract
This chapter outlines the promise of blockchain for the construction industry. Blockchain is an opportunity to create novel forms of economic coordination toward better collaboration within and across the built asset life cycle phases. Ongoing research tends to focus on blockchain to increase trust in existing processes. Instead, we argue blockchain’s disruptive potential is the creation of novel economic coordination. Therefore, we intend to advance the thinking around the promise of blockchain as an institutional innovation in the construction industry. First, we explain how the underlying cryptoeconomic governance mechanisms of blockchain can facilitate new decentralized coordination mechanisms between both humans and machines. Next, we provide an alternative vision for the governance of construction 4.0 to explain how cryptoeconomic coordination can address long-standing problems in the construction industry. Finally, we propose an adoption framework that can guide researchers and practitioners to explore the promise of blockchain and cryptoeconomics for the construction industry.
Citation
HUNHEVICZ, J., DOUNAS, T. and HALL, D.M. 2022. The promise of blockchain for the construction industry: a governance lens. In Dounas, T. and Lombardi, D. (eds.) Blockchain for construction. Singapore: Springer [online], pages 5-33. Available from https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3759-0_2
Online Publication Date | Sep 21, 2022 |
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Publication Date | Dec 31, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Apr 19, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 22, 2122 |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 5-33 |
Series Title | Blockchain technologies |
Series ISSN | 2661-8338; 2661-8346 |
Book Title | Blockchain for construction |
ISBN | 9789811937583 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3759-0_2 |
Keywords | Blockchain; Construction industry; Economic coordination; Cryptoeconomics; Governance |
Public URL | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1942464 |
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