“…3) Technical barriers, such as IT, software and hardware equipment issues and lack of alignment between the systems of different organizations (Abeyratne & Monfared, 2016;Sternberg & Baruffaldi, 2018;Farooque et al, 2020); 4) External barriers, including government regulations and policies, unique industry standards, etc. (Mangla et al, 2018;Saberi et al, 2019;Farooque et al, 2020) Of the identified barriers, the technical barriers are the most challenging as BCT combines different components of the latest information technology (i.e., bitcoin, internet, cloud, etc.)…”