TY - CONF T1 - Tribal Governance: The Business of Blockchain Authentication Y1 - 2018 A1 - Miscione, G A1 - Ziolkowski, R A1 - Zavolokina, L A1 - Schwabe, G AB - The blockchain technology offers a novel mode of distributed authentication, which does not depend on a central authority. We consider this novelty against established governance modes. We illustrate our argument by paying special attention to blockchain-based authentication functions in the empirical domain of land registries across the world. Based on interviews with representatives from organizations deploying blockchain, and content analysis of related grey literature, we discuss established governance idealtypes against what the rivalry that cryptocurrencies and blockchains bring to digital settings. After referring to market, hierarchy, network, and bazaar, we conclude outlining the prospects of a different, blockchain-related governance mode called ‘tribal’ that better captures the ‘togetherness’ which rivalry originates. PB - Urban Centre for Computation and Data N1 - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-51), Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, 3-6 January 2018 ER -