Contributed by scholars and practitioners from North America, Nigeria, and Belgium, the 14 articles in this volume examine the theory and practice of disruptive innovation in the digital world and the role and impact of innovation and disruptions in business and finance. They address disruptive innovation in financial technology firms, including trends in financial innovation; artificial intelligence and technological innovation, including the expansion of big data and artificial intelligence technologies from the perspective of economic theory, the relationship between a firm's combinative capability and value creation in the context of technological scope expansion, and the value influence of emerging financial environmental, social, and governance factors on equity markets; blockchain, including overcoming supply chain finance challenges using blockchain technology, whether blockchain can futureproof supply chains, blockchain finance and regulation issues, and the research literature on blockchain; and cryptocurrency, initial coin offerings, and anomaly trading, with discussion of the trustworthiness of Bitcoin, how cryptotoken issuance might disrupt funding markets, cryptocurrency and Islamic finance development, Bitcoin and conditional volatility, and anomaly trading strategies. -- Copyright 2019 * Portland, OR *
