Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis or Project Study
📌 Key facts
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💡 Background
PayPal has entered the cryptocurrency market. So have Square and Revolut. Facebook has its own digital currency Libra, and the Bitcoin price rises dramatically. Crypto currencies certainly have their challenges and considerable research explores its impact on financial systems, user adoption and stock indicators. However, we want you to explore more current trends and whether crypto currencies are making their way into stores and if people pay with them. Crypto currencies could be a viable payment solution, but we need to find out what determines its viability and adoption.
Answer at least one of the following questions:
- Which companies allow to pay in a crypto currency (virtual/physical) in Germany and other countries?
- Which systems are suitable for paying in crypto currencies?
- Which companies and products would benefit from accepting payments in crypto currencies?
- Which companies are leaders in this space?
- What are the pros and cons of crypto payments?
- What are the pros and cons of different crypto payment systems?
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on doing research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Research current literature on crypto currencies as a payment solution
- Identify companies accepting crypto currencies and driving its adoption
- Develop key drivers for the wider adoption of crypto currencies both shop and consumer-side
- Evaluate different crypto currencies and payment systems
- Visualize your results (e.g. by country, or a collection of all shops, a collection of all currencies etc.) similar to this.
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies / DLT / FinTech / financial infrastructure
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
Roberts, J. J. (2020). Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street. Harvard Business Review Press.
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📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of a bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!