Table 5

Challenges of BT for SC

ChallengesAuthorsDescriptionNo. articles
AdoptionHastig and Sodhi (2020), Saberi et al. (2019), van Hoek (2020) The adoption requires specific technical managerial knowledge and skills17
Implementation costKamble et al. (2019), Saberi et al. (2019), Zhang et al. (2020) High implementation costs are related to the hardware and software infrastructure present among all the SC partners10
Energy consumptionFosso Wamba et al. (2020) High energy consumption in public blockchain1
OrganizationBavassano et al. (2020), Montecchi et al. (2019), Saberi et al. (2019) Process issues between small and medium-sized enterprises of the network15
Regulation and governanceChang et al. (2020), Jensen et al. (2019), Kittipanya-Ngam and Tan (2020) A regulatory framework regarding blockchain transactions does not exist11
PrivacyChang et al. (2020), Kamilaris et al. (2019), Zhao et al. (2019) Sharing information between partners can lead to opportunistic behaviour16
StandardizationHastig and Sodhi (2020), Jensen et al. (2019), Saberi et al. (2019) The absence of a standard generates communication problems between the participants of the network9
Technology performanceHastig and Sodhi (2020), Helo and Hao (2019), Pournader et al. (2020), Zhao et al. (2019) BT has technical problems such as storage capacity, scalability, throughput and latency issue. These problems are related to the slow speed of storage data, reading transactions and data management41

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