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Exploring ICO’s Phenomenon: Developing a Taxonomy of Academic and Non-academic Discourse

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Information Systems (EMCIS 2021)

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New ventures and private investors are showing increasing interest in innovative forms of fundraising. ICO is the abbreviation of Initial Coin Offering and it represents an innovation in entrepreneurial finance [1]. However, no study has ever developed a taxonomy of academic and not academic discourse related to this type of innovative financial tool. This paper aims to fill this gap by developing a taxonomy to investigate and categorize papers that discuss Initial Coin Offering phenomenon. This study is developed using a mixed methodology. The first stage of the research protocol regards the dataset definition and description. In the second stage we adopted the taxonomy process developed by Nickerson et al. [2]. The purpose of the present work is to develop a taxonomy with a set of dimensions each consisting of a set of characteristics that describes the objects in a specific study. We identified “Research Topics” as set of dimensions. It comprises eight dimensions: field of investigation, focus, actors, token type, extra topic, research issue, ICO phase, blockchain. In the taxonomy process we assigned a single value to every dimension. In the last section, we summarize some preliminary results, providing conclusions and discussions for future research.

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Di Matteo, G., Za, S. (2022). Exploring ICO’s Phenomenon: Developing a Taxonomy of Academic and Non-academic Discourse. In: Themistocleous, M., Papadaki, M. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 437. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95947-0_11

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