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Organizational Adoption of Blockchain Based Medical Supply Chain Management

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The disruptive impact of blockchain technology on transactions, contracts, networks, and supply chains is widely recognized across business sectors for its benefits of security, privacy, and transparency. However, some critical industries like healthcare and defence can generate more value from blockchain technology. To identify, categorize, and rank the determinants of blockchain-based medical Supply Chain Management (SCM) adoption in the context of the organizations, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) analysis were conducted. The SLR revealed fourteen sub-factors categorized according to the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework. The AHP analysis identified the five most essential sub-factors of blockchain-based medical SCM system adoption as top management support, government support, competitive pressure, inter-organizational trust, and organizational culture. The five least significant factors were identified as complexity, standardization, IT infrastructure, perceived benefit, and financial resources. This study provides insight to all the stakeholders of the supply chain in the medical context to improve the adoption of blockchain technologies taking into account key factors that influence its success.

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Çaldağ, M.T., Gökalp, E. (2023). Organizational Adoption of Blockchain Based Medical Supply Chain Management. In: Al-Sharafi, M.A., Al-Emran, M., Tan, G.WH., Ooi, KB. (eds) Current and Future Trends on Intelligent Technology Adoption. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48397-4_16

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