1st Edition
Blockchain and Supply Chain Management The Five Paradoxes in Organisations
208 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book offers a distinctive and evidence-based examination of why blockchain technology has not achieved the transformative impact in supply chain management that many anticipated. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with technology and supply chain executives across the logistics, food and pharmaceutical sectors, it develops a novel analytical framework based on sociomateriality, affordance theory... Read more
1. Blockchain Innovation and Supply Chain Management 2. The Potential of Blockchain for the Supply Chain 3. Exploring Blockchain Innovation in Industry 4. Conceptualising the Blockchain Paradox 5. Blockchain Paradox and Supply Chain Practice 6. Whither Blockchain Innovation in the Supply Chain
Biography
Paul Bebbington is Supply Chain Business Partner at the NHS. He is also a Doctor of Business Administration at the University of Manchester, UK.
Edward Granter is Associate Professor in Management, Work and Organization at the University of Birmingham, UK.
John Hassard is Professor of Organizational Analysis at the University of Manchester, UK.
