Organização do conhecimento em finanças descentralizadas: perspectivas teórica, epistemológica e ontológica

Abstract

Complexity is a promising, multidisciplinary, and current area of research that facilitates a broader understanding of phenomena. One of these phenomena is decentralized finance, in which financial services and instruments are offered and used without the need for intermediaries. Decentralized finance has the potential to shape the future financial ecosystem, as well as become even more interconnected with the real economy and the financial system as a whole. However, this potential can be compromised by the low quality of available data, inaccurate ways of collecting and analyzing data, and poor organization of information to support decision-making. Therefore, the objective of this article is to propose adequate theoretical, epistemological and ontological perspectives to address the problem of knowledge organization in the context of complex and multidisciplinary issues in general and, in particular, in the context of decentralized finance. This is an applied, qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive research. An intrinsic case study of knowledge organization in DeFi was carried out from the philosophical and theoretical perspectives. The main contributions of this research were: the proposition of a philosophical and theoretical foundation for knowledge organization research in the context of complex and multidisciplinary problems, and in decentralized finance, in particular; and providing foundations for the development of new theories in information science. It is suggested that further research empirically investigate the problem of knowledge organization in decentralized finance.