Study on the Intention of Foreign Trade Driven by Cross-Border E-Commerce Based on Blockchain Technology

Abstract

Cross-border e-commerce is also facing the problems of cross-border goods selling counterfeit, long delivery time of cross-border logistics, and high cross-border payment fee in the process of development. Blockchain technology, with its characteristics of high trustworthiness, traceability, and information immutability, can be applied to the field of cross-border e-commerce, providing a new direction for cross-border e-commerce to solve these problems. At the present stage, scholars at home and abroad mainly study how blockchain technology is applied in cross-border e-commerce, explore the specific mode of combining blockchain technology with cross-border e-commerce, and lay the theoretical foundation for the application of blockchain technology in cross-border e-commerce, while less research is conducted on the application effect of blockchain technology in cross-border e-commerce. Based on this, this paper researches the influence mechanism of the application of blockchain technology in cross-border e-commerce on consumers’ willingness to purchase, explains the current situation of the application of blockchain technology in various fields of cross-border e-commerce, and on this basis, divides the quality of the blockchain system of cross-border e-commerce into three dimensions of commodity information quality, logistics service quality, and payment security.

Analysis of the key influencing factors of China’s cross-border e-commerce ecosystem based on the DEMATEL-ISM method

“…Core journal articles and highly cited papers related to the influencing factors of "cross-border e-commerce ecosystem" were then organized, summarized, and analysed. The main references for this study are references [ 2 , 11 , 39 , 40 ]. A typical scientific, comprehensive, and practical analysis of influencing factors was carried out and the results were refined and combined through expert interviews to form a preliminary indicator system.…”

“…Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the current world economy is extremely complex, and the growth in China’s traditional import and export trade is slightly sluggish. However, with the continuous development of information technology and the deepening of trade globalization [ 1 , 2 ], cross-border e-commerce, which is a new form of business and a new model, has shown unique advantages in driving industrial transformation and economic restructuring [ 3 ]. Under the incentive of continuous policy dividends and based on the enormous consumer group, China’s cross-border e-commerce continues to develop [ 4 ].…”

Research on Optimization of Steel Foreign Trade Financial Transaction Based on Blockchain Technology

“…e research literature on blockchain in foreign trade finance mainly focuses on feasibility exploration and the enhancement of transaction effects. Gao [1] summarized the current status of blockchain technology applications in various fields of cross-border e-commerce. OuYang et al [2] pointed out that the consensus mechanism, collaboration mechanism, incentive mechanism, and governance mechanism of blockchain technology can be used to empower the development of foreign trade.…”

Research on the Innovative Application of Cross-Border E-Commerce Platform Based on Suning Blockchain

“…The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce in China has also given rise to many problems. Cross-border e-commerce is more concentrated on the sale of counterfeit goods, difficulties in returning and exchanging goods, low creditworthiness, and information security issues, [2] which are the parts that consumers are most concerned about. For example, compared to domestic e-commerce transactions, crossborder e-commerce has multiple transaction entities, involving many links, resulting in opaque information; cross-border payment hierarchy agency structure leads to high payment costs, long time, and low security; the long distance of cross-border logistics leads to high logistics costs, and it is difficult to return and exchange goods; The difficulty in tracing cross-border goods has led to serious problems with counterfeit goods and definition of responsibility.…”