... tokens acquired through smart contract trading into the currency currently in use. Practical implications The paper includes our proposed blockchain model to trade securely without needing a trusted third party (e.g. bank, chamber of commerce, etc.) via smart contracts written in the Solidity...

...Di Wang; Guoqing Yang; Xiaoliang Zhu Purpose This study aims to examine how blockchain technology affects the financing and operational decisions of firms in supply chains with insufficient guarantee capacity. Design/methodology/approach To improve the competitiveness of the whole supply chain...

...Sensen Hu; Jingyi Lu; Xinghong Qin; Shahnawaz Talpur Purpose As a potentially disruptive technology, blockchain technology ensures that all the data cannot be merely tampered with once they are recorded on-chain. However, the fake source information may be input into the blockchain, which...

...Junhai Ma; Jie Fan; Meihong Zhu; Jiecai Chen Purpose Food quality and safety issues have always been imperative topics discussed by people. The anti-tampering of blockchain technology and the transparency of information make it possible to improve food traceability and safety quality. How...

...Miaomiao Wang; Xinyu Chen; Yuqing Tan; Xiaoxi Zhu Purpose To explore how the blockchain affects the pricing and financing decisions in a low-carbon platform supply chain. Design/methodology/approach Considering the dual roles of the e-commerce platform as a seller and an initiator, a typical...

...Muhammad Shoaib; Shengzhong Zhang; Hassan Ali; Muhammad Azeem Akbar; Muhammad Hamza; Waheed Ur Rehman Purpose This study aims to identify and prioritize the challenges to adopting blockchain in supply chain management and to make its taxonomic model. Moreover, validate whether these challenging...

... level, consumers' requirements for green and high quality food are growing. In recently years, to increase consumers' perceived trustworthiness on the product greenness and quality levels, stakeholders in green food supply chain (hereafter, GFSC) start to adopt the blockchain-based traceability system...

...Aamir Rashid; Syed Baber Ali; Rizwana Rasheed; Noor Aina Amirah; Abdul Hafaz Ngah Purpose This paper aims to find the impact of blockchain supply chain on supply chain performance with a mediating role of supplier trust, traceability and transparency. Design/methodology/approach Data...

...Eladian Batista Rodrigues; Wagner Luiz Lourenzani; Eduardo Guilherme Satolo; Sergio Silva Braga Júnior; Rosley Anholon; Izabela Simon Rampasso Purpose This study aims to present consolidated information on blockchain, which seeks to better clarify the concept of blockchain and the associated...

...Pan Liu; Xiaoyan Cui; Ziran Zhang; Wenwen Zhou; Yue Long Purpose The purpose of this paper is to solve new pricing issues faced by low-carbon companies in the Yellow River Basin, which is caused by the change of key pricing factors in the mixed appliance background of Big Data and blockchain...

.... This study aims to investigate whether blockchain can affect the business intelligence efficiency of banks. This study also aims to examine the impact of security, fraud reduction and privacy of blockchain, equal and anonymous access to the blockchain, decentralization and sustainability of blockchain...

...Zhihao Yu; Liang Song; Linhua Jiang; Omid Khold Sharafi Purpose Security is the most important issue in Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart cities and blockchain (BC). So, the present paper aims to detect and organize the literature regarding security in the IoT-based smart cities and BC context...

.... Social currency Social entrepreneurship Social technology Blockchain Cryptocurrency Sustainable development The financial crises of 1929 and 2008, as well as the contribution of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) have motivated the creation of various social currencies...