Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO): Innovating in the New Digital Economy is a pioneering guide that delves into the rapidly evolving landscape of decentralized organizations, offering readers an in-depth understanding of one of the most transformative concepts of our digital era. As blockchain technology reshapes industries and creates new paradigms for how businesses operate, DAOs stand at the forefront of this revolution, poised to redefine governance, collaboration, and economic structures on a global scale. This book is essential for anyone looking to gain a competitive edge in the digital economy by understanding and harnessing the potential of DAOs. What makes this book truly pioneering is its comprehensive approach. It doesn’t merely skim the surface; instead, it takes readers through a detailed journey of understanding how DAOs work, their economic and social implications, and the technological backbone that powers them. From dismantling traditional hierarchical structures to creating entirely new models of organizational governance based on smart contracts and blockchain technology, this book is both a theoretical and practical exploration of how DAOs can revolutionize various sectors. For executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and policy-makers, it provides the knowledge and strategies needed to adapt and thrive in this new, decentralized world. The book’s value lies in its depth and practical focus. Each chapter breaks down complex concepts into accessible language, demystifying the inner workings of DAOs. It explores a range of key topics such as governance tokens, tokenomics, community-driven decision-making, interoperability between blockchain networks, and regulatory challenges. This makes the book a practical manual, offering not only a foundational understanding but also strategic insights for leveraging DAOs to drive business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. By laying out clear pathways for integration and application, the book serves as a vital toolkit for decision-makers who want to stay ahead in a rapidly shifting digital landscape. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO): Innovating in the New Digital Economy stands out as a commercially relevant work by offering actionable insights for today’s business leaders. For those in the technology and finance sectors, the book outlines how to capitalize on DAO structures to maximize transparency, efficiency, and agility in business operations. It provides concrete steps on how to develop, launch, and manage DAOs, addressing potential pitfalls and highlighting success factors based on real-world applications. With examples and case studies, it makes clear how DAOs are already transforming sectors like finance, supply chain, healthcare, and even public governance. Another standout feature of this book is its focus on the future of work and organizational behavior in the context of DAOs. It reveals how these decentralized entities are not just technological innovations but social and economic disruptors that challenge the status quo. With the rise of DAOs, the future of work is moving towards a more inclusive, democratic, and decentralized model. This book explores these dynamics, offering a blueprint for building more resilient and adaptive organizations that can weather economic uncertainties and capitalize on new opportunities. Readers will gain insight into how to attract and retain top talent in a decentralized world and how to build and nurture communities that drive sustained engagement and value creation. For readers seeking to understand the ethical and social implications of these new digital entities, the book provides a balanced and thought-provoking analysis. It delves into issues of fairness, inclusivity, and governance in the DAO landscape, addressing both the opportunities and challenges presented by these models. The book is unafraid to tackle difficult questions about power dynamics, governance, and the potential risks of decentralized systems, offering a nuanced perspective that equips readers to make informed decisions. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO): Innovating in the New Digital Economy is a timely, authoritative, and forward-looking work that stands as a must-read for those looking to engage with the future of digital economies. It is not just a book but a strategic guide that helps readers anticipate the future and make impactful decisions today. For businesses, it’s about understanding how to integrate DAO principles to innovate and stay ahead of the competition. For policymakers, it provides a roadmap for navigating the regulatory complexities of this new frontier. And for academics and enthusiasts, it offers a rich source of ideas and frameworks for further exploration and application. This book is more than just a theoretical exploration—it’s a call to action. It invites readers to imagine a future where decentralized governance can lead to more efficient, transparent, and equitable systems. By understanding the concepts and applications presented, readers will be better positioned to leverage DAOs to create new business models, enhance collaboration, and drive sustainable growth. In conclusion, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO): Innovating in the New Digital Economy is the definitive guide to understanding and capitalizing on the DAO phenomenon. It is a groundbreaking work that is set to become a cornerstone reference for anyone interested in the future of digital governance and economic innovation. Don’t miss the opportunity to explore this new world and be among the pioneers shaping the next generation of digital organizations.

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) constitute a comparatively novel area in academic research and scholarship, but the budding interest in this category of digital and algorithmic organization across various disciplines provides an indication of the possibilities that DAOs wield in terms of informing and advancing our understanding of the potentialities of the digital economy's forthcoming iterations. It also points towards practical use cases to solve problems that the increasing decentralization and amorphization of the structures of the digital economy portend. At the same time, DAOs are afflicted by various strands of skepticism that are attributable to their vulnerabilities, subjacent hype, ultimate purpose, and usefulness. This skepticism also requires scholarly attention and careful study through multidisciplinary perspectives, as further research may come to either dispel or confirm the array of concerns that continue to loom large about DAOs as technological, governance, societal, and economic instruments in the future. With all this in mind, the aim of this book is to offer multiple studied perspectives that explore DAOs from a variety of perspectives across several disciplinary prisms. It does not seek simply to weigh the balance of DAO's merits and demerits, but rather to conceive, appreciate, and discover various elements of ultimate import to DAOs over their future evolutionary course. Drawing upon the insights of interdisciplinary subject matter experts, this book allows for a holistic enquiry into the role, potential and limitations of DAOs. The book will thus be of interest to a multidisciplinary audience of scholars in organizational studies, computer science, economics, sociology of technology, philosophy, law, and the governance of innovation.

How can the public manager create and co-create value in the digital economy? While there is much exciting work being done, there is a pressing need to recontextualize public value theory (PVT), specifically in terms of its theoretical precepts, in the fluid and dynamic environment that the digital economy has produced. Much of the theoretical undergirding of PVT predates the full onset of today’s digital economy, leaving aside phenomena including citizen-driven innovations, decentralized digital structures, and the algorithmic foundations of new economic life. This is why a conceptually driven exercise in contemporizing PVT would be of great value to public administration’s theoreticians seeking to lead the theory in catching up to the praxis. This book seeks to answer the question of creating and co-creating public managerial value by developing chapters that revisit categories central to the functions of public managers in relation to other value-creating agents under PVT. It introduces new and important lenses to PVT that are grounded in the praxis of the digital economy, raising new questions about old problems in PVT and generating newer formulations that push PVT forward and make its debates salient to the futures that lay before the modern public manager. The book therefore constitutes an important effort to take PVT forward by shedding new light on the potency of the public manager in confronting and constructing the digital economy through co-creation with the other agents of public value. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and policy makers in the fields of public and nonprofit management, public administration and policy, and PVT.

The 2nd International Conference on Public Management, Digital Economy and Internet Technology (ICPDI 2023) was successfully held on 1-3 September 2023 in Chongqing, China. This conference aimed to bring together researchers, scholars, and practitioners from various fields to exchange ideas and discuss advancements in the areas of public management, digital economy, and internet technology. The conference featured a diverse range of research topics, including but not limited to Public Management, Digital Economy and Internet Technology. The conference fostered a rich and stimulating intellectual environment. The program included keynote speeches by renowned experts in the field, parallel sessions for paper presentations, and panel discussions addressing emerging trends and challenges. The conference proceedings showcased a wide array of research papers, providing valuable insights into the latest theoretical and practical developments in the field of public management, digital economy, and internet technology. Participants had the opportunity to engage in constructive discussions, offer feedback, and establish potential collaborations for future research endeavors. We extend our gratitude to all participants, presenters, organizers, and sponsors for their contributions in making this conference a resounding success. We look forward to the 3rd edition of this conference, where we can further explore the dynamic intersections of public management, digital economy, and internet technology.

Blockchains are the distributed ledger technology that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But blockchains can be used for more than the transfer of tokens – they are a significant new economic infrastructure. This book offers the first scholarly analysis of the economic nature of blockchains and the shape of the blockchain economy. By applying the institutional economics of Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, this book shows how blockchains are poised to reshape the nature of firms, governments, markets, and civil society.

Role of Blockchain Technology in IoT Applications, Volume 115 in the Advances in Computers series, reviews the latest information on this topic that promises many applications in human life. According to forecasts made by various market research/survey agencies, there will be around 50 Billion connected devices (IoT) by 2020. Updates in this new release include chapters on the Technical Aspects of Blockchain and IoT, Integrated Platforms for Blockchain-Enablement, Intersections Between IoT and Distributed Ledger, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence: How and Why Combining These Two Groundbreaking Technologies, Blockchain Applications in Health Care and Opportunities and Advancements Due to New Information Technology Frameworks, and more.

Innovative digital technologies are forcing companies to rethink how they compete. The focus of digital innovation in business has shifted from internal transformation within firms to their market interface and ecosystems. While opportunities for innovation in internal operations are well established, it’s less clear how to leverage technology at the market interface. This often has strategic implications, and the goal of this book is help you connect digital innovation to business strategy. By understanding how to leverage digital technologies, you can redefine your market-facing business processes, your products, services and even your business models and stay competitive in today’s hybrid markets. This book provides a coherent and comprehensive approach to not just survive but rather thrive in the 21st Century global marketplace. With global, real-world examples and original frameworks, this is an ideal book for executives and anyone who wants to understand digital strategy. Highly practical but infused with rigorous research, it shows you how your business can use digital technologies to compete in today’s hybrid markets.