Blockchain Practices, Potentials, and Perspectives in Greening Supply Chains

By Mahtab Kouhizadeh, Joseph Sarkis. Sustainability, 2018

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Blockchain technology is an inchoate technology whose current popularity is peaking. Some of the most pervasive blockchain technology use cases exist for supply chains. Sustainable, and especially green, supply chains can benefit from blockchain technology, but there are also caveats. The sustainability and environmental management research and academic literature is only starting to investigate this emergent field. This paper seeks to help advance the discussion and motivate additional practice and research related to green supply chains and blockchain technology. This viewpoint paper provides insight into some of the main dimensions of blockchain technology, an overview of the use cases and issues, and some general research areas for further investigation.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review on Current Development and Potential Applications (2020, background): “…review studies, this work synthesizes and analyzes research contributions from recent published literature to highlight that blockchain can reform the traditional paradigm of supply chain operations and develop a more sustainable environment for the overall supply chain ecosystem [129], [135].”
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A Survey of Blockchain From the Perspectives of Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities (2019, background): “Blockchain has some key characteristics, such as decentralization, transparency, immutability, and auditability [5].”
A supply chain transparency and sustainability technology appraisal model for blockchain technology (2019, background): “Many different supply chain use cases appear in the literature (Kouhizadeh and Sarkis 2018).”
Smarter eco-cities and their leading-edge artificial intelligence of things solutions for environmental sustainability: A comprehensive systematic review (2023, background): “Also, based on multi-sensor-driven (or IoT-based) AI tools, blockchain platforms can optimize circular economy loops ([264, 265]), allowing carbon footprint reduction and solid waste disposal con-trol and thereby contributing to sustainability transitions [266].”
A literature review of blockchain technology applications in supply chains: A comprehensive analysis of themes, methodologies and industries (2021, unknown): “Among them, two articles considered a single factor, environment (Kouhizadeh & Sarkis, 2018) and society (Venkatesh et al., 2020).”
How Green FinTech Can Alleviate the Impact of Climate Change—The Case of Switzerland (2020, unknown): “[64] Sustainability Blockchain Practices, Potentials, and Perspectives in Greening Supply Chains Analyzes the link between green FinTech and supply chain technologies.”
Blockchain applications in supply chains, transport and logistics: a systematic review of the literature (2019, background): “The authors with the highest number of publications were Angappa Gunasekaran (Kamble, Gunasekaran, and Arha 2018; Gunasekaran et al. 2018), Joseph Sarkis (Kouhizadeh and Sarkis 2018; Saberi et al. 2019), Mahtab Kouhizadeh (Kouhizadeh and Sarkis 2018; Saberi et al. 2019) and Nil Kshetri (Kshetri 2018”
Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities (2020, unknown): “Sustainability in supply chain 146 Kouhizadeh and Sarkis (2018) The paper tries to understand the feasibility of integration blockchain with green SC and help advance the discussion.”
Blockchain and the circular economy: potential tensions and critical reflections from practice (2020, background): “Although substantial closed-loop activities for blockchain may exist (see Kouhizadeh and Sarkis (2018)), the adoption of these practices are not at the forefront of adoption.”