Lessons from the Field for the Field of Performance Improvement: A Bitcoin Study

Ria Roy

doi:10.1002/pfi.21716

Lessons from the Field for the Field of Performance Improvement: A Bitcoin Study

Ria Roy

Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning Department

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Abstract

 Introduction
 What allows you to do transactions, to do commerce, to exchange money without an intermediary such as a bank or a credit-card company (Tapscott, 2016)? What allows you do do all of these without the physical representation of a currency? What was the first decentralized cryptocurrency in 2009, is a peer-to-peer online virtual currency, and is a leading digital currency globally (Sagona-Stophel, 2013)? In Q4 2016, as a key player, what currency had a market capitalization of over $15 billion (Das, 2016) with a mission to create a stable worldwide currency for the Internet (Bosker, 2013)?
 The answer is Bitcoin.

Original language	American English
Journal	Performance Improvement Journal
Volume	56
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pfi.21716
State	Published - May 2017

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