Improving the reliability of the information disclosure in supply chain based on blockchain technology

Zhou, Zhongbao; Liu, Xingfen; Zhong, Feimin; Shi, Jianmai

doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2022.101121

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“…In SCM, information disclosure can -to a large extent -refer to either SCT, information sharing, or quality disclosure (see Zhou et al, 2022). However, it can also refer to other types such as environmental disclosures (e.g., Khosroshahi et al, 2021) or technological disclosures (e.g., Zhou et al, 2018).…”

Section: Information Disclosurementioning

confidence: 99%

A review of supply chain transparency research: Antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes

Budler,

Quiroga,

Trkman

2023

J of Business Logistics

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The growing popularity of “Supply Chain Transparency” (SCT) as an idea has motivated its use as a “buzzword,” leading to a lack of terminological clarity. Terms like visibility, transparency, and traceability are used colloquially or as synonyms for one another, yet often without a proper conceptual basis. We argue that the absence of a clear understanding of SCT limits the ability of scholars and practitioners to fully understand the role played by transparency in supply chains and to study its antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes. Therefore, transparency research is at the point where a scoping review of literature on SCT is particularly useful. Our review first provides a formal conceptualization of SCT, allowing us to identify how transparency has been understood, the building blocks of SCT, and what distinguishes SCT from other concepts. In the review, we initially identify relevant concepts underlying SCT with a view to establish a unifying and nuanced framework for SCT. Second, using that unified conceptualization as a basis, primary outcomes such as the benefits and risks of SCT are determined. Third, we systematically detect and classify future research opportunities arising from the building blocks of SCT.

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Section: Information Disclosurementioning

confidence: 99%

A review of supply chain transparency research: Antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes

Budler,

Quiroga,

Trkman

2023

J of Business Logistics

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“…Blockchain technology usually can not work independently, but also other related technologies are required to acquire and preprocess necessary data for blockchain system [251] . Therefore, a company may face additional cost for investing in extra technology devices, such as RFID, code reader, and sensors [252] .…”

Section: Cost Of Blockchain In Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advances of Blockchain and Its Applications

2022

J. Soc. Comput.

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Blockchain is an emerging decentralized data collection, sharing, and storage technology, which have provided abundant transparent, secure, tamper-proof, secure, and robust ledger services for various realworld use cases. Recent years have witnessed notable developments of blockchain technology itself as well as blockchain-enabled applications. Most existing surveys limit the scopes on several particular issues of blockchain or applications, which are hard to depict the general picture of current giant blockchain ecosystem.In this paper, we investigate recent advances of both blockchain technology and its most active research topics in real-world applications. We first review the recent developments of consensus and storage mechanisms and communication schema in general blockchain systems. Then extensive literature review is conducted on blockchain-enabled Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing, federated learning, and several emerging applications including healthcare, COVID-19 pandemic, online social network, and supply chain, where detailed specific research topics are discussed in each. Finally, we discuss the future directions, challenges, and opportunities in both academia and industry.

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“…Therefore, when adopting the blockchain, the firm also needs to invest in some technology to record components' usage history and provenance information (e.g. RFID, sensor, and identifier ) (Zhou et al 2022). So we refer to these technologies recording history and provenance information as transparency technologies when the blockchain is adopted.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although the blockchain is a good solution to make a transparent and immutable supply chain, we also need to consider the consumer privacy concern brought by blockchain adoption(Pun, Swaminathan, and Hou 2021; Zhou et al 2022). For example, Chow Tai Fook Jewelry uses blockchain digital verification instead of traditional paper verification, where consumers view the diamond's certification report through an app.…”

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confidence: 99%

When Should the Platform adopt Blockchain Technology under the Transparency Awareness and Privacy Concerns?

Chen

2023

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More and more companies promote their products as sustainable products, but many firms have been exposed to quality and safety issues, which makes consumer question the true quality of the ‘sustainable product’. The platform can adopt blockchain technology to attract more consumers by disclosing reliable product information to the consumer, but it will also result in a risk of privacy leakage through registering the blockchain. Hence, we consider a platform-based supply chain that includes a supplier and a platform. We investigate the pricing and information disclosure decision of the platform, then analyze the blockchain adoption strategy of the platform under the consumer’s transparency awareness and privacy concern. We find that when the transparency cost is sufficiently low, it is beneficial for the platform to adopt blockchain technology. Interestingly, blockchain adoption is beneficial for the supplier and the whole supply chain but hurts the platform under a certain threshold. Specifically, the platform is more sensitive to the increase in consumers’ privacy concerns and transparency costs compared to the retailer. This is because of the cost of information disclosure. Counterintuitively, when transparency awareness is high, the platform will even decrease the retail price as the increasing proportional cost of blockchain technology. Additionally, we find that there exists a ‘win-win-win’ strategy when transparency awareness is high, and privacy concern is low, in which the application of blockchain technology will benefit the supplier, platform, and consumers.

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Improving the reliability of the information disclosure in supply chain based on blockchain technology

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

A review of supply chain transparency research: Antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes

A review of supply chain transparency research: Antecedents, technologies, types, and outcomes

Recent Advances of Blockchain and Its Applications

When Should the Platform adopt Blockchain Technology under the Transparency Awareness and Privacy Concerns?

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