Blockchain Technology in Corporate Governance

BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY IN CORPORATE GOVERANCE This book investigates the recent applications of blockchain technology in financial services, energy sector, and summarizes regulatory responses, to set the scene for future work on corporate governance. This edited book highlights the current governance framework for the blockchain and its development as a self-governing framework. It discusses blockchain technology's effectiveness in developing solutions for supply chains, trade finance, and banking. Moreover, it shows how banking and financial institutions are the major beneficiaries of this decentralized technology. Furthermore, the book outlines the link between company governance theories, regulatory, ethical, and social controls, and blockchain adoption. It also investigates the recent applications of blockchain technology in financial services, the health sector, and the energy sector. Audience The book is specially designed for researchers, industrialists, engineers, graduate students, and policymakers, who aspire to learn, discuss, and carry out further research into the opportunities offered by blockchain and the possible ways of regulating it.

Kiran Sood, PhD, is an associate professor in the Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. She earned her doctorate in Commerce with a concentration on Product Portfolio Performance of general insurance companies in India in 2017 from Panjabi University, Patiala. Before joining Chitkara University in 2019, she worked in four organizations with a total experience of 16 years. She serves as an Editor of the International Journal of BioSciences and Technology and the International Journal of Research Culture Society. Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U. P, India. He has published 35+ articles in various journals and conference proceedings and contributed chapters to various books. His research and publication interests include cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, and cloud computing. He is an Expert Advisory Panel Member of Texas Instruments Inc USA. Balamurugan Balusamy, PhD, is an associate professor at VIT University, Vellore, India. He has authored/edited about 30 books on various technologies. He has published more than 150 publications in quality journals, conferences, and book chapters. He serves on the advisory committees for several startups and forums and does consultancy work for the industry on Industrial IoT. Seifedine Kadry, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Applied Data Science, Noroff University College, Kristinasnad, Norway, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon. He is also an ABET Program Evaluator of computing and an ABET Program Evaluator of engineering technology. His current research interests include data science, education using technology, system prognostics, stochastic systems, and probability and reliability analysis.

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Kiran Sood, PhD, is an associate professor in the Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. She earned her doctorate in Commerce with a concentration on Product Portfolio Performance of general insurance companies in India in 2017 from Panjabi University, Patiala. Before joining Chitkara University in 2019, she worked in four organizations with a total experience of 16 years. She serves as an Editor of the International Journal of BioSciences and Technology and the International Journal of Research Culture Society.

Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U. P, India. He has published 35+ articles in various journals and conference proceedings and contributed chapters to various books. His research and publication interests include cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, and cloud computing. He is an Expert Advisory Panel Member of Texas Instruments Inc USA.

Balamurugan Balusamy, PhD, is an associate professor at VIT University, Vellore, India. He has authored/edited about 30 books on various technologies. He has published more than 150 publications in quality journals, conferences, and book chapters. He serves on the advisory committees for several startups and forums and does consultancy work for the industry on Industrial IoT.

Seifedine Kadry, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Applied Data Science, Noroff University College, Kristinasnad, Norway, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon. He is also an ABET Program Evaluator of computing and an ABET Program Evaluator of engineering technology. His current research interests include data science, education using technology, system prognostics, stochastic systems, and probability and reliability analysis.