Green investment in a sustainable supply chain: The role of blockchain and fairness

Li, Qingying; Ma, Manqiong; Shi, Tianqin; Zhu, Chen

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2022.102908

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“…In addition, the factors influencing the use of blockchain in low‐carbon supply chains have garnered the interest of numerous scholars. Li et al (2022) discovered that fairness concerns of retailers and consumer green sensitivity influence blockchain usage. According to Biswas et al (2023), blockchain has a negative impact on the environment due to its high energy consumption, and firms choose not to use blockchain when consumer distrust is high but to use blockchain when consumer distrust is low.…”

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Using blockchain or not? A focal firm's blockchain strategy in the context of carbon emission reduction technology innovation

Zhu,

Feng,

et al. 2024

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Recently, blockchain has been increasingly applied to low‐carbon supply chains, enabling consumers to track production process of low‐carbon products, thereby improving brand awareness and expanding the market. However, do the operation and construction costs of blockchain come at the expense of squeezing resources originally allocated for research and development (R&D) of carbon emission reduction (CER) or reducing firms profits? Given the varying capacities of different types of firms to bear the costs of blockchain in the process of R&D of CER, this paper considers two categories of firms, superior brand firms and inferior brand firms, and studies the impact of blockchain usage on CER and profits. Research shows that the usage of blockchain is not necessarily beneficial to CER and profits enhancement. Consumers' trust and low‐carbon preference, brand awareness, blockchain operation and construction costs, and R&D difficulty of CER are key factors. Superior brand firms can improve CER level and profits through blockchain when R&D difficulty is low and consumers' trust is high or when R&D difficulty is high but consumers' low‐carbon preferences and brand awareness are high. Inferior brand firms can improve CER level and profits through blockchain when R&D difficulty is low and consumers' trust is high or when R&D difficulty is high but brand awareness is low. This study provides strategic insights for brand firms considering the usage of blockchain in their CER initiatives, highlighting the importance of aligning blockchain integration with firm‐specific characteristics and market conditions to achieve both environmental and profit objectives.

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Using blockchain or not? A focal firm's blockchain strategy in the context of carbon emission reduction technology innovation

Zhu,

Feng,

et al. 2024

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“…Besides, there also exist literature that explored on-purchase and after-sales service simultaneously when studying the product supply chain (Hosseini-Motlagh et al ., 2022; Li et al. , 2022a, b).…”

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“…Li et al. (2022a, b) focused on a B2B supply chain and studied joint contracting on product order quantity and after-sales service decisions. Xia et al .…”

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Analysis of software promotion strategies in product-service integrated supply chains

Li,

Xia,

Zhao

et al. 2023

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare the pricing decisions and earning potential of the software supplier and the smart device manufacturer in different software promotion strategies.Design/methodology/approachBased on game theory, the authors formulate two promotion models, that is, the supplier implements software promotion activities individually (SP model) or outsources the promotion activity to the manufacturer under profit-sharing contract (MP model) when taking different channel power structures into consideration. Besides, in order to test the robustness of the conclusions, the authors also extend the basic model to the following situations: (1) the customers have different price elasticity toward service fee and product price; (2) the revenue sharing contract is employed by the supply chain members; and (3) the manufacturer's product promotion practice is taken into consideration.FindingsThe optimal service fee (product price) of the supplier (manufacturer) under SP model is always lower (higher) than that under MP model. Surprisingly, if the supplier is the channel leader and the profit sharing ratio exceeds certain threshold, the manufacturer's profit decreases in profit sharing ratio, which remains robust in three extension models. Moreover, the supply chain's profit in supplier-led game is always lower than that in Nash game irrespective of the promotion strategy in profit sharing context. When revenue sharing contract is adopted, the result holds only when the revenue sharing ratio is relatively low.Originality/valueThe authors originally explore two promotion strategies of the software supplier when taking the channel power structures into considerations, which has not been explored in the literature to the best of the authors' knowledge.

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“…Pee et al (2018) andAlcarria et al (2018) examine the potential for a simple peer-to-peer water market based on smart contracts with water trading data stored on the Ethereum private network. Liu and Shang (2022) propose hybrid blockchain approach for trading water rights and Li et al (2022b) use chain code to enable transactional water rights data storage in a private Hyperledger Fabric network for the same purpose.…”

Section: Water Economicsmentioning

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Blockchain Applications and Opportunities for Water Resources and Hydrology: A Systematic Review

Satilmsioglu¹,

Sermet²,

Demir³

2023

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Although blockchain technology was first applied for peer-to-peer financial transactions, it has been used for the digitalization of physical asset management and data management processes in many areas in the industry and academia, including the water domain. Its potential as an immutable data storage system and smart contract integration has provided a plethora of use cases and utility in the domain of hydrology and water resources. In this article, a comprehensive systematic literature review on blockchain applications, opportunities and challenges for the water sector is conducted. The study provides the examination of academic publications, technical reports, whitepapers, hackathon projects, non-academic content and evaluation of the published year, focused hydrology sub-domain, utilized blockchain networks, tools, and development level of application of reviewed content. The current status of blockchain technology in the hydrology literature, potential application areas in the water sector, research gaps, and challenges are discussed from different perspectives, and future study areas are recommended.

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Green investment in a sustainable supply chain: The role of blockchain and fairness

Cited by 59 publications

References 54 publications

Using blockchain or not? A focal firm's blockchain strategy in the context of carbon emission reduction technology innovation

Using blockchain or not? A focal firm's blockchain strategy in the context of carbon emission reduction technology innovation

Analysis of software promotion strategies in product-service integrated supply chains

Blockchain Applications and Opportunities for Water Resources and Hydrology: A Systematic Review

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