Decentralized Finance: The Impact of Blockchain-Based Financial Innovations on Entrepreneurship

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of decentralized finance (DF) and discusses how entrepreneurs can leverage it in their business activities.

Decentralized finance (DF) is a system for exchanging value without centralized intermediaries. It relies heavily on peer-to-peer lending and borrowing, decentralized exchanges, trustless systems, and blockchain. Decentralized Finance is seen as a disruptive technology that could replace traditional financial systems in the future due to its advantages of being inclusive, non-discriminatory, resilient to risk management failures, cost-effective for lenders and borrowers to access the system and more efficient in terms of financial intermediation through automated trustless systems.

This book explains the challenges and opportunities that these blockchain-based financial innovations present for both entrepreneurship and the broader financial system.

Sami Basly is Associate Professor at the University of Paris Nanterre (France). Prior to that, he was Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux (France) where he was an active member of the Research Centre for Family Firms. He has authored several papers and books about family firms, internationalization and digital transformation. His research focuses on family entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship and financial technology and innovation.