Ricerc@Sapienza

Even if first scientific research regarding the concept of IT governance was developed in the 1960s, only in the late 1990s did this topic obtain systematic attention from scholars. From then on, the concept of IT governance has become an object of greater attention and has been analysed in the broader context of corporate governance mechanisms. The literature provides various definitions and a range of constructs to describe the concept of IT governance in the form of different structures, processes, domains, facets, and elements, analogous to the study of corporate governance in general.

Blockchain technology can influence various aspects of the business even if empirical studies are still lacking to estimate the effective application of technology on corporate governance. Beyond its scientific-practical trendiness, blockchain should not be a matter of “if”, but a matter of “how” organizations are willing and able to integrate blockchain practices into their vision of the future, with ways to manage shareholders issues down to regular operations reaching and managing different levels of activism.