A Framework for the Evaluation of Factors Affecting Smart Contract Adoption and Enforceability in Port Supply Chain Industry in Ghana

Factors Affecting Port Users’ Behavioral Intentions to Adopt Financial Technology (Fintech) in Ports in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case of Ports in Ghana

“…The maritime and ports industry therefore plays a crucial role in facilitating trade and creating value and wealth for most countries in the world. Several Fintech components such as blockchain and smart contracts, among others, have been implemented across industries including the maritime and ports industry [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21], due to its potential to address the challenges of cargo delays and ship turnaround time and providing stakeholders in the maritime and ports sector with real-time information for trade facilitation. The gap identified in the literature can be aligned with the [22] who developed the transformational affordance framework (TAF) using a case study of Ghana's paperless port digitization transformation and technology affordance theory.…”

“…The authors reconceptualize the notion of digital platformization, which has largely focused on the private sector environment and addressed the literature gap from the public sector's perspective on how digital platformization produces relational affordances for public sector transformation. Since Ghana leads as the fastest growing digital market [5], it was crucial that beyond assessing how digital platformization generates relational affordances for public sector transformations, we assessed the broad Fintech adoption factors on port users' behavioral intentions in participating in a Fintech program in the maritime and ports industry using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) theoretical framework, which is currently missing in the literature [12,14,20,[23][24][25][26]. To address this gap in the literature from the theoretical and empirical perspectives, we ask this broad question "what are the factors that influences port users' behavioral intentions to participate in a Fintech".…”