Investigating the themes in supply chain finance: the emergence of blockchain as a disruptive technology
Kucukaltan, Berk Kamasak, R. Baris Yalcinkaya, B.
Kucukaltan, Berk
Kamasak, R.
Baris Yalcinkaya, B.
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2024-11
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© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in International Journal of Production Research. [Kucukaltan B, Kamasak R, Yalcinkaya B et al (2024) Investigating the themes in supply chain finance: the emergence of blockchain as a disruptive technology. International Journal of Production Research. 62(22): 8173-8192]. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Blockchain has gained momentum as a disruptive technology in supply chain management against its introduction as a finance-related instrument. Nevertheless, the developing academic understanding and the limited practical implications lead to insufficient insights into the use of blockchain technology, particularly in the supply chain finance (SCF) domain. Thus, the expected potential of blockchain technology remains underexplored. Accordingly, this study explicates this situation by examining the extant literature findings and web-based big data that can provide evidence about the real needs in supply chains, and investigating how blockchain emerges as a disruptive SCF-oriented technology. The study employs a web analytics method, Search Engine Results Page (SERP) analysis which considers the trends in blockchain technology use and the interactions between blockchain, supply chain and finance appearing in Google searches. The SERP method examined real-time clicks, web traffics and most commonly asked questions about blockchain. The SERP findings revealed that the interest in blockchain technology neither focused on finance nor data privacy as emphasised in the literature but mainly on the benefits of increasing digitalisation and efficiency in supply chains. The results offered practical implications for capturing recent blockchain- and supply chain-related trends and designing more digital and efficient supply chains.
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Kucukaltan B, Kamasak R, Yalcinkaya B et al (2024) Investigating the themes in supply chain finance: the emergence of blockchain as a disruptive technology. International Journal of Production Research. 62(22): 8173-8192.
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