Blockchain-based traceability system for supply chain : potentials, gaps, applicability and adoption game

• There are hypes towards blockchain-based traceability systems (BCTS) both from academia and industry. This paper discusses challenges and policy recommendations for BCTS from a viewpoint of industrial application and market competition. First, the potentials of BCTS and the gaps between the ideal and the reality of BCTS are elaborated. Second, we discuss the applicability of BCTS. Third, by a game-theoretic model, we study when supply chains should invest in BCTS. Investment is recommended when investment cost is relatively low compared to the price and market competition is less intense. A prisoner’s dilemma arises when investment cost is at a moderate level. 

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

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Blockchain

game theory

supply chain

supply chain management

traceability system

Commerce

Competition

Investments

Block-chain

Game-theoretic model

Investment costs

Market competition

Policy recommendations

Price competition

Traceability systems

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