Blockchain research, practice and policy: Applications, benefits, limitations, emerging research themes and research agenda

By D. L. Hughes, Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, S. Misra, Nripendra P. Rana, Vishnupriya Raghavan, Viswanadh Akella. International Journal of Information Management, 2019

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Abstract The blockchain has received significant attention from technology focussed researchers, highlighting its perceived impact and emerging disruption potential, but has been slow to engender any significant momentum within the Information Systems (IS) and Information Management (IM) literature. This study approaches the subject through an IS/IM lens developing the key themes from the blockchain based research via a comprehensive review. This analysis of the body of literature highlights that although few commercial grade blockchain applications currently exist, the technology demonstrates significant potential to benefit a number of industry wide use cases. This study expands on this point articulating through each of the key themes to develop a detailed narrative on the numerous potential blockchain applications and future direction of the technology, whilst discussing the many barriers to adoption. The study asserts that blockchain technology has the potential to contribute to a number of the UN Sustainability Development Goals and engender widespread change within a number of established industries and practices.

Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Management Information Systems

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Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy (2019, background): “The Hughes et al. (2019) study incorporated the UN SDGs from the perspective of blockchain technology and how this emerging technology could be aligned with the creation of business and social value (Hughes et al., 2019).”
Blockchain technology for enhancing swift-trust, collaboration and resilience within a humanitarian supply chain setting (2020, background): “Moreover, our study further empirically validate the claim of previous studies (see Roeck, Sternberg, and Hofmann 2019; Dolgui et al. 2019; Hughes et al. 2019).”
Boundary conditions for traceability in food supply chains using blockchain technology (2020, background): “Schuetz & Venkatesh, 2019; Ying, Jia, & Du, 2018) and its promises are high (Hughes et al., 2019; Ølnes, Ubacht, & Janssen, 2017).”