Design of a blockchain-based collaborative framework for resource sharing
This study explores the design of a blockchain-based collaborative framework for resource sharing using smart contracts.
Background
Blockchain technologies have been shown to support traceability, transparency, and trust among their participant users. This has primarily been explored in established supply chains and not in the growing use of business networks or ecosystems.
Sustainable industrial transformation requires consideration of various capabilities, value creation strategies to reduce carbon emission and calls for integrative and collaborative efforts for effective resource utilization. However, privacy risks and trust have always been a significant barrier for supply chain integration and digitalization. Partners fear that collaboration and data sharing can weaken their bargaining power, accelerate risk of data manipulation and result in loss of information advantages. This results in low supply chain visibility, taking advantage of which, capacity overbooking- and illegitimate subcontracting is common practice in supply chains.
Aims and objectives
- Identify key factors that influence the collaborative models, including those related to social and environmental sustainability.
- Provide input for comprehensive smart contracts with multi-criteria decision making.
- Analyze transaction and maintenance cost sharing on the blockchain network.
Applied interdiciplinarity
Sustainable industrial transformation requires interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach. It involves diverse technological developments and implementations following a systems perspective which calls for collaborations among different actors. Similarly, development and implementation of blockchain technology in boarded supply chain ecosystem for effective collaboration and resource sharing requires amalgamation of strategic business model lens and technology development based on business requirements. This is being addressed with this multidisciplinary consortium of researchers from HPU and INDEK.
Papers
- Agrawal, T K., Angelis, J., Khilji, W. A., Kalaiarasan, R. and Wiktorsson, M (2022).“Demonstration of a blockchain based framework using smart contracts for supply chain collaboration”, International Journal of Production Research. doi: 10.1080/00207543.2022.2039413
- Agrawal, T. K., Kalaiarasan, R., and Wiktorsson, M. (2020). ”Blockchain-Based Secured Collaborative Model for Supply Chain Resource Sharing and Visibility”, In IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, pp. 259-266. Springer, Cham.
KTH Collaborations
Sustainable Production Development (HPU)
Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK)
Duration
May 2020 – December 2021