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Indian MSME’s Sustainable Adoption of Blockchain Technology for Supply Chain Management: A Socio-Technical Perspective

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This article studies the adoption of blockchain technology in Indian Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in the context of innovations in supply chain management (SCM) using blockchain technology. Besides finance, SCM is one of the main areas where disruptive innovations based on blockchain technology are going to be deployed. Blockchain technology’s unique proposition lies in the attributes of trust, transparency, traceability, immutability, and decentralization. MSME’s form the backbone of the Indian economy. This article provides a socio-technical factors-based analysis of the adoption of blockchain technology in Indian MSME, particularly in a SCM context. Sustainability is an important variable that is expected to moderate the relationship between socio-technical factors and large-scale adoption. The relationships are tested via a survey of professionals in MSMEs in India who are both familiar with blockchain technology and sustainable SCM. This study shall offer a deeper understanding of the application of socio-technical systems theory for the adoption of blockchain technologies by MSMEs in India.

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  1. S P Jain School of Global Management, Mumbai, 400070, Maharashtra, India

    Vineet Paliwal & Suneel Sharma

  2. S P Jain School of Global Management, Singapore, 119579, Singapore

    Shalini Chandra

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  1. Indian Institute of Management Tiruchira, Tiruchirappalli, India

    Sujeet K. Sharma

  2. Swansea University, Swansea, UK

    Yogesh K. Dwivedi

  3. Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, Nagpur, India

    Bhimaraya Metri

  4. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

    Nripendra P. Rana

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Paliwal, V., Chandra, S., Sharma, S. (2020). Indian MSME’s Sustainable Adoption of Blockchain Technology for Supply Chain Management: A Socio-Technical Perspective. In: Sharma, S.K., Dwivedi, Y.K., Metri, B., Rana, N.P. (eds) Re-imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation. TDIT 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 617. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64849-7_15

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