An ISM-DEMATEL analysis of blockchain adoption decision in the circular supply chain finance context

Lu Wang is Associate Professor of Digital Finance in the School of Accounting at the Beijing Wuzi University, Beijing, China. She received her PhD from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. She has been a visiting scholar at the Anderson School of Management of the University of New Mexico, USA. Her research interests include digital technology, blockchain, distributed computing and their business and financial management roles. Her research has been published in journals such as International Journal of Information Management and Information and Management and presented at the Americas Conference on Information Systems and Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Jun Zhang is Full Professor of Financial Accounting in the School of Accounting at the Beijing Wuzi University, Beijing, China. He is the Dean of the School of Accounting at the Beijing Wuzi University. His research interests include supply chain finance and accounting and performance evaluation for logistics/supply chain corporations. He has published works and undertaken research projects in the fields of logistics industry development.

Jian Li is a full professor of management science in the School of Economics and Management at the Beijing University of Technology, China. He is the Head of the Blockchain Research Center at the Beijing University of Technology. He has published several books and numerous articles in China and international journals. His research interests include supply chain management, sustainability in supply chain finance and research methods.

Huayi Yu is Full Professor of Economics in the School of Public Administration at the Renmin University of China. He received his PhD from the Renmin University of China. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana –Champaign, USA. His research interests include urban economics, economic mathematics and management decision research methods. His research has been published in journals such as Regional Science and Urban Economics and Urban studies.

Jun Li is a research fellow at the Advanced Innovation Center of Future Blockchain and Privacy Computing, Beihang University, China. He is currently the Deputy Director of Xiongan Blockchain Laboratory and China Computer Federation (CCF) Blockchain Committee, China. He received his PhD from the Institute of Computing Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He was the co-founder and COO-- Chief Operating Officer of a blockchain startup company. In the meanwhile, he was a senior engineer and master tutor in the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the National Key Laboratory of Network and Exchange at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His research interests focus on the theory and practice of distributed ledger and trust technology (blockchain) and has formed invention patents and published academic papers, many of which has been applied in multiple contexts including digital city, digital society, digital finance, digital agriculture and digital government.