Blockchain in the operations and supply chain management: Benefits, challenges and future research opportunities
By Samuel Fosso Wamba, Maciel Manoel de Queiroz. International Journal of Information Management, 2020
411 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract Blockchain technologies have captured the imagination of scholars, managers, and practitioners around the world. It is widely accepted by these actors that blockchain is not a buzzword, but a highly disruptive technology that is already remodeling the organizations and their supply chain business models. Despite the meaningful advance in the last years, blockchain applications regarding the operations and supply chain management (OSCM) are still in their infancy. Little is known about the role of blockchain in terms of operations traceability, as well in areas such as e-commerce, agriculture, public services, etc. Therefore, this Special Issue seeks to extend our understanding of blockchain applications in OSCM and how firms create and capture business value with blockchain. To this effect, this Special Issue will provide a well-articulated and in-depth discussion of the role of blockchain in creating value in the domain of OSCM. Specifically, it is expected that more light is shed on how blockchain integrates with and impacts new business models, transforms relationships, and improves performance and competitive advantage in OSCM. Also, the evolution of blockchain was reviewed in order to provide a strong background to the readers. The literature review was performed taking into account a bibliometric perspective of blockchain-related publications. The review supports the importance of this Special Issue by highlighting the urgent needs of this topic in this reputable journal. Finally, we provide future research directions and a guide for the papers presented in this Special Issue.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
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In Management Information Systems
- Samuel Fosso Wamba
- Maciel Manoel de Queiroz
- Marc de Bourmont
- Renato Telles
- Dmitry A. Ivanov
- Angappa Gunasekaran
- Rameshwar Dubey
Citations in the corpus
- Blockchain Technology: Benefits, Challenges, Applications, and Integration of Blockchain Technology with Cloud Computing (2022, background): “Improved system interoperability, enhanced data security, and much more, are just some of the benefits of this technology—let’s use blockchain technology; let’s examine how businesses and institutions benefit from it [37].”
- Transforming business using digital innovations: the application of AI, blockchain, cloud and data analytics (2020, neutral): “According to Wamba and Queiroz (2020), “[d]espite the numerous potential benefits of blockchain, blockchain related concepts (e.g., enablers, adoption, implementation, etc.) are still to be well mastered by a good number of managers.”
- A literature review of blockchain technology applications in supply chains: A comprehensive analysis of themes, methodologies and industries (2021, neutral): “…al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2019), two articles reviewed the transportation field (Astarita et al., 2020; Pournader et al., 2020), and the remaining four articles did not have a specific application background (Gurtu & Johny, 2019; Queiroz et al., 2019; Wamba & Queiroz, 2020; Y. L. Wang et al., 2019).”
- Blockchain adoption in operations and supply chain management: empirical evidence from an emerging economy (2020, background): “Thus, from different angles, blockchain is being investigated in the context of supply chain management (SCM) (Kshetri 2018; Queiroz, Telles, and Bonilla 2019; Rahmanzadeh, Pishvaee, and Rasouli 2019; Li et al. 2020; Wamba and Queiroz 2020).”