A case study on business model innovations using Blockchain: focusing on financial institutions
- Authors
- Oh, JaeShup; Shong, Ilho
- Issue Date
- Dec-2017
- Publisher
- EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
- Keywords
- Case study; Business model innovation; Blockchain; Distributed
- Citation
- ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, v.11, no.3, pp 335 - 344
- Pages
- 10
- Journal Title
- ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 335
- End Page
- 344
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/2123
- DOI
- 10.1108/APJIE-12-2017-038
- ISSN
- 2071-1395
2398-7812
- Abstract
- Purpose - Blockchain is a distributed ledger, in which the blocks containing transaction details are connected chronologically to form a series of chains, thus raising the possibility of improving the process and innovating business model for the financial institutions. The purpose of this paper is to study the actual cases of Blockchain applied in Korea in 2017, so that a vision of business model innovation of financial institutions can be drawn. Design/methodology/approach - The financial institutions in Korea are in the technology verification stage to introduce Blockchain technology. Since there is an insufficient amount of actual measurement data, case study method was adopted. The authors interviewed ICT officers of major banks in Korea. The purpose of the interview was to understand the relationship between Blockchain and business models of financial institutions, and the effects and challenges that Blockchain has on the business model of financial institutions. Findings - From the perspective of financial institutions, the emergence of Blockchain does not just have technical significance - emergence of highly efficient database system - but has the possibility that if the business model of existing financial intermediaries disappears or get reduced, the financial services relying on them can disappear altogether, or some of them can be replaced, and financial transaction patterns of consumers can be changed. As a case studies researched for this paper, it was discovered that the distributed characteristic of Blockchain cannot be applied when actually developing financial services.
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