How could blockchain be a key resource in the value creation process of a local currency? A case study centered on Eusko

Fabienne Pinos ()
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Fabienne Pinos: CREG - Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

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Abstract: Blockchain is seen as a major financial innovation for the years to come; it interests financial industry as well as some local currencies. Thus, it seems appropriate to analyze how Blockchain could be a key resource in the value creation process of a local currency. Our article aims first to analyze the potential contributions of Blockchain for local currencies. Then, we compare these contributions to the key resources and activities identified in the study of the value creation process of Eusko, the first European currency in circulation since the end of 2018. Launched in June 2011, managed by the association Euskal Moneta (EM), this initiative aims at creating value that can be considered as public value (Moore, 1995). We use the canvas of Osterwalder & al. (2011) to identify the key resources and activities of EM's business model and explore how blockchain technology might or might not support them. We show that several factors can slow or even preclude the adoption of such a technology in an innovative context that solicits, in various forms, the adaptive capacities of project stakeholders. Through this case study, we wish to contribute to develop knowledge about economic models of local currencies.

Keywords: Local currency; blockchain; value creation; trust; transition. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in International Journal of Community Currency Research, 2020, Vol. 24 (Summer) Issue 2, pp. 1-13, ⟨10.15133/j.ijccr.2020.008⟩

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DOI: 10.15133/j.ijccr.2020.008

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