Management, Governance and Value Creation in a Blockchain Consortium

Presenter

Liudmila Zavolokina
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Zurich

Abstract

In recent years, an increasing number of blockchain consortia have emerged. They have become popular with enterprises that want to leverage the potential of blockchain technology and extract real business value from it. Although there are different organizational forms in which businesses explore the potential offered by blockchain technology, blockchain consortia represent a new type of inter-organizational collaboration for exploring the technology, assessing its capabilities and developing digital ecosystems and platforms to solve shared business problems. However, many aspects of these collaborations remain out of sight. Little is known about how these consortia are developed and what tensions emerge in such collaborations. In this talk, Liudmila Zavolokna will show the evolution of the cardossier blockchain consortium in Switzerland, which is building a system for managing car data and seeking to improve collaboration between players in the car-related ecosystem.

Biography

Dr. Liudmila Zavolokina is a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich (UZH) and an active member of the UZH Blockchain Center. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Zurich. During her Ph.D., Liudmila co-initiated Cardossier, now one of the largest business blockchain consortia. Her research is design-oriented and focuses on trust creation, business value, and governance in blockchain platforms as well as digital platforms and ecosystems for public value. In her research, she collaborates with practitioners from the automotive industry, public sector, and financial services. Liudmila also spent several years working in the software industry in various roles, like IT consultant, project manager, business and system analyst.