Purpose

Adoption of blockchain technology (BT) leads to shrinking supply chains, produces a better quality product, saves product development time and increases the customized offering to the customer. Since it is a new and growing area of research, researchers and practitioners are not entirely aware of challenges in the adoption of BT in supply chain (SC). Therefore, the objective of this research is to provide an overview of BT in SC and modeling of challenges in the adoption of BT in SC.

Design/methodology/approach

Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) is used to model the challenges of adoption of BT in SC. Challenges are identified by the literature review and verified by expert's opinions.

Findings

This study presents some key challenges, i.e. to develop trust within SC management system, obey the governance rules and regulations of institution while implementation of BT in SC, provide transparency of data, obtain tamperproof data to avoid fraud, improve coordination and information sharing among the SC partners, choose a profit-earning product SC for adoption of BT, adopt societal changes and train the participants to strengthen behavioral intention towards adoption of BT in SC. Additionally, interrelationships among the challenges have been identified. This work discusses potential implications based on challenges and provides a platform for the adoption of BT in SC.

Originality/value

The interrelations of the challenges will provide valuable understandings for developing BT solutions in SC to the practitioners.

中文翻译：

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供应链中采用区块链：对挑战的评估

目的

采用区块链技术（BT）导致供应链缩水，生产质量更高的产品，节省了产品开发时间，并增加了为客户提供的定制产品。由于这是一个新兴且不断发展的研究领域，因此研究人员和从业人员并不完全意识到在供应链（SC）中采用BT所面临的挑战。因此，本研究的目的是概述SC中的BT，并对SC中采用BT的挑战进行建模。

设计/方法/方法

解释性结构建模（ISM）用于建模在SC中采用BT的挑战。挑战通过文献综述确定，并通过专家的意见进行验证。

发现

这项研究提出了一些关键挑战，例如，在SC管理体系内建立信任，遵守机构的治理规则和法规，同时在SC中实施BT，提供数据透明性，获取防篡改数据以避免欺诈，改善协调和信息共享。 SC合作伙伴，选择一种获利产品SC来采用BT，采用社会变革，并培训参与者以增强在SC中采用BT的行为意图。此外，已经确定了挑战之间的相互关系。这项工作讨论了基于挑战的潜在影响，并为在SC中采用BT提供了一个平台。

创意/价值

挑战之间的相互关系将为从业人员开发SC中的BT解决方案提供有价值的理解。