An ISM Modeling of Barriers for Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology Adoption in Supply Chains towards Cybersecurity

Etemadi, Niloofar; Gelder, Pieter van; Strozzi, Fernanda

doi:10.3390/su13094672

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“…All this has generated a great paradigm change in society, which has influenced users' purchasing habits and the companies' way of selling products or services [2]. Thus, the evolution of cyber-security has followed the ongoing progress of communication technologies [3]. In this new environment, cyber-security is gaining special relevance, just like the innovations that are rapidly appearing in this new digital market.…”

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E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

D’Adamo¹

2021

Sustainability

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The pandemic has changed the citizens’ behavior, inducing them to avoid any real contact. This has given an incredible impulse to e-commerce; however, the complexity of the topic has not yet been adequately explored in the literature. To fill this gap, this study has a twofold purpose: (1) to investigate how European countries comparatively perform in e-commerce, and (2) to describe what are the most important challenges for the further expansion of e-commerce. To this end, we adopted a hybrid methodology based on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and a Likert scale survey. The first method allows to us rank the e-commerce performance of different European countries, while the second one looks at the problems and barriers that characterize online shopping. The results of the study show that European countries have different sensitivities to the issue of cyber-security, and among them it is possible to identify three groups with different levels of attention to the critical issues of e-commerce. The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark belong to the group of countries most responsive to e-commerce. This request is part of a broader framework of transition toward sustainable development, i.e., a reliable digital environment where citizens and businesses can exercise their rights and freedoms in complete security. Finally, from a theoretical perspective, this paper adds a new baseline to the literature on the state of the art of e-commerce in Europe that addresses the effects of the pandemic. From a managerial point of view, decision makers can find in the results of this analysis a support for the setting of business strategies for the expansion of firms in certain markets and guidance for public authorities when defining regulatory policies for e-commerce.

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E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

D’Adamo¹

2021

Sustainability

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“…Finally, using interpretive structural modeling (ISM), a structural model of barriers to adopt Industry 4.0 was constructed. Such a methodology was applied in many prior works (e.g., Kamble et al, 2018;Karadayi-Usta, 2019;Raj et al, 2020;Kumar et al, 2021;Etemadi et al, 2021;Sarkar & Shankar, 2021;Gupta & Goyal, 2021;Goel et al, 2022;Godinho et al, 2022;Desingh, 2022, Verma et al, 2022.…”

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Barriers to adopt industry 4.0 in supply chains using interpretive structural modeling

Attiany¹,

Al-kharabsheh²,

Al-Makhariz³

et al. 2023

10.5267/j.uscm

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This research aims at exploring barriers of adopting Industry 4.0 in manufacturing supply chains. Data were collected based on a review of extant literature on barriers Industry 4.0 adoption, individual interviews with a panel consisted of academic and industry experts. Following numerous previous studies, interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and matrix multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC) analysis were conducted to order 10 barriers based on their importance and impacts. The results excluded one barrier “cyber security challenges”, categorized another one as a dependent barrier “lack of digital strategy”, and eight barriers as linkage barriers “lack of infrastructure”, “personnel resistance to adopt new technologies”, “high investment requirements”, “data management and quality challenges”, “uncertainty of economic benefits”, “low maturity level of technology”, “lack of adequate skills”, and “job disruptions”. Henceforward, it was concluded that mitigating these eight barriers is very critical to ensure a successful adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in supply chains. Further studies are required to categorize these eight barriers based on their importance and relationships.

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“…Whereas the first had a more theoretical approach, the second, with an empirical slant, proposed an alternative architecture to improve food supply chain efficiency [102], [104]. Convergences of the study could also be retrieved in the works of Etemadi et al [103] and Sanchez-Gomez et al [104]. The focus of these papers was to highlight the dependency of traceability systems on oracles and the consequences on reliability and security.…”

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Overview of Blockchain Oracle Research

Caldarelli¹

2022

Preprint

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Whereas the use of distributed ledger technologies has previously been limited to cryptocurrencies, other sectors—such as healthcare, supply chain, and finance—can now benefit from them because of bitcoin scripts and smart contracts. However, these applications rely on oracles to fetch data from the real world, which cannot reproduce the trustless environment provided by blockchain networks. Despite their crucial role, academic research on blockchain oracles is still in its infancy, with few contributions and a heterogeneous approach. This study undertakes a bibliometric analysis and aims to shed light on the institutions and authors that are actively contributing to the oracle literature, intending to promote progress and cooperation. On the one hand, although worldwide collaboration is still lacking, various authors and institutions are working in similar directions. On the other hand, most areas of research are scarcely explored, and others are even untouched.

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An ISM Modeling of Barriers for Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology Adoption in Supply Chains towards Cybersecurity

Cited by 52 publications

References 170 publications

E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

Barriers to adopt industry 4.0 in supply chains using interpretive structural modeling

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