PMID- 35075317
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20240220
IS  - 0254-5330 (Print)
IS  - 1572-9338 (Electronic)
IS  - 0254-5330 (Linking)
DP  - 2022 Jan 20
TI  - Modeling the blockchain readiness challenges for product recovery system.
PG  - 1-45
LID - 10.1007/s10479-021-04468-4 [doi]
AB  - Product Recovery System (PRS) transfers products from their typical final place 
      to their source to arrest some value on the product. There are obstructions, such 
      as costs, associated with the modification of accounts and assessment of products 
      and refunds associated with the implementation of PRS. Blockchain Technology 
      (BCT) emerged as an innovative approach to constructing trust in a trust less 
      environment and assures the availability, traceability, and security in data 
      management. It also presents a valuable solution to PRS. This study aims to 
      analyze the Blockchain Readiness Challenges (BRCs) to PRS in the context of 
      manufacturing industries. The study observes 20 readiness challenges linked with 
      the implementation of BCT in PRS. The BRCs are identified from the literature 
      survey and confirmed after consequent examinations with industry experts and 
      researchers. The study employed a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) i.e., the 
      Decision-Making Trial And Evaluation Laboratory (Fuzzy DEMATEL) approach to find 
      the cause-and-effect interactions to prioritize BRCs. The Maximum Mean De-Entropy 
      (MMDE) algorithm was adopted to establish the threshold value based on the 
      information entropy of the interactions among the BRCs for PRS. The fuzzy set 
      theory was adopted to tackle the uncertainty and vagueness of personnel biases 
      and data deficiency problems. The findings from this study reveal that inadequate 
      financing for PRS exercises, lack of governance and standards, and security 
      challenges to BCT implementation are the most influential readiness challenges 
      for the adoption of blockchain in PRS. The study is useful to manufacturing 
      organizations for identifying the potential BRCs to implement PRS among all 
      existing readiness challenges so that they can take suitable measures before 
      proceeding to adopt blockchain in PRS. The managers are suggested to eliminate 
      the readiness challenges and widen the blockchain technology adoption in PRS.
CI  - (c) The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 
      part of Springer Nature 2021.
FAU - Dwivedi, Ashish
AU  - Dwivedi A
AD  - Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. 
      GRID: grid.449565.f
FAU - Agrawal, Dindayal
AU  - Agrawal D
AD  - Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. 
      GRID: grid.417967.a. ISNI: 0000 0004 0558 8755
FAU - Paul, Sanjoy Kumar
AU  - Paul SK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9523-179X
AD  - UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia. GRID: 
      grid.117476.2. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7611
FAU - Pratap, Saurabh
AU  - Pratap S
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT BHU), 
      Varanasi, India. GRID: grid.467228.d. ISNI: 0000 0004 1806 4045
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220120
PL  - United States
TA  - Ann Oper Res
JT  - Annals of operations research
JID - 101608624
PMC - PMC8769798
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Blockchain technology
OT  - Fuzzy DEMATEL
OT  - Multi-criteria decision-making
OT  - Product recovery system
OT  - Readiness challenges
EDAT- 2022/01/26 06:00
MHDA- 2022/01/26 06:00
PMCR- 2022/01/20
CRDT- 2022/01/25 05:50
PHST- 2021/11/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/01/25 05:50 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/01/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/01/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/01/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 4468 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10479-021-04468-4 [doi]
PST - aheadofprint
SO  - Ann Oper Res. 2022 Jan 20:1-45. doi: 10.1007/s10479-021-04468-4.