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Table 4

Benefits of BT for SC

Benefits	Authors	Description	No. articles
Authentication and certification	Bai and Sarkis (2020), Choi (2019), Longo et al. (2019)	The capability to confirm the quality of an asset using digital signatures followed by a registration on a distributed register	9
Automation	Hasan et al. (2019), Wang et al. (2019)	The capability to manage automatically actions after specific events	6
Disintermediation and decentralization	Kamilaris et al. (2019), Wang et al. (2019)	Managing transactions without intermediaries, i.e. without the presence of trusted central authorities. In addition, information is distributed between several nodes to ensure cybersecurity	9
Efficiency	Manupati et al. (2020), Martinez et al. (2019), Yang (2019)	Focused monitoring, high speed on the operations number and reduced time consuming on process management	33
Immutability	Pedersen et al. (2019), Schmidt and Wagner (2019)	Data cannot be changed or tampered without network consensus	10
Partner support	Longo et al. (2019)	The technology improves greater collaboration between participants in the SC	8
Reliability	Bai and Sarkis (2020), George et al. (2019)	It supports the collection, storage and management of data, managing crucial information about products and the participants of SC	11
Risks reduction	Kamble et al. (2020), Min et al. (2019)	Reducing financial and fraud risks between the actors involved	25
Security	Pournader et al. (2020), Queiroz et al. (2019), Wang et al. (2019)	The distributed and encrypted nature of BT makes it difficult to tamper with the technology	22
Traceability (tracking and tracing)	Hastig and Sodhi (2020), Kamble et al. (2019), Lezoche et al. (2020), Yadav and Singh (2020)	Each transaction on the distributed ledger can be traced and tracked back to its origin and provenance	25
Transaction cost	Min (2019), Queiroz et al. (2019), Schmidt and Wagner (2019)	Reducing transaction costs related to relationships with network partners	16
Transparency (visibility)	van Hoek (2019), Ivanov et al. (2019)	The distributed ledger is transparent and visible to the participants and it is easy to monitor and verify	25
Trust	Chang et al. (2020), Montecchi et al. (2019)	The transactions are immutable; in this way, everyone can view them, which increases trust in the product and on the actors involved	21

Benefits	Authors	Description	No. articles
Authentication and certification	Bai and Sarkis (2020), Choi (2019), Longo et al. (2019)	The capability to confirm the quality of an asset using digital signatures followed by a registration on a distributed register	9
Automation	Hasan et al. (2019), Wang et al. (2019)	The capability to manage automatically actions after specific events	6
Disintermediation and decentralization	Kamilaris et al. (2019), Wang et al. (2019)	Managing transactions without intermediaries, i.e. without the presence of trusted central authorities. In addition, information is distributed between several nodes to ensure cybersecurity	9
Efficiency	Manupati et al. (2020), Martinez et al. (2019), Yang (2019)	Focused monitoring, high speed on the operations number and reduced time consuming on process management	33
Immutability	Pedersen et al. (2019), Schmidt and Wagner (2019)	Data cannot be changed or tampered without network consensus	10
Partner support	Longo et al. (2019)	The technology improves greater collaboration between participants in the SC	8
Reliability	Bai and Sarkis (2020), George et al. (2019)	It supports the collection, storage and management of data, managing crucial information about products and the participants of SC	11
Risks reduction	Kamble et al. (2020), Min et al. (2019)	Reducing financial and fraud risks between the actors involved	25
Security	Pournader et al. (2020), Queiroz et al. (2019), Wang et al. (2019)	The distributed and encrypted nature of BT makes it difficult to tamper with the technology	22
Traceability (tracking and tracing)	Hastig and Sodhi (2020), Kamble et al. (2019), Lezoche et al. (2020), Yadav and Singh (2020)	Each transaction on the distributed ledger can be traced and tracked back to its origin and provenance	25
Transaction cost	Min (2019), Queiroz et al. (2019), Schmidt and Wagner (2019)	Reducing transaction costs related to relationships with network partners	16
Transparency (visibility)	van Hoek (2019), Ivanov et al. (2019)	The distributed ledger is transparent and visible to the participants and it is easy to monitor and verify	25
Trust	Chang et al. (2020), Montecchi et al. (2019)	The transactions are immutable; in this way, everyone can view them, which increases trust in the product and on the actors involved	21