Public value creation through voluntary business to government information sharing enabled by digital infrastructure innovations: a framework for analysis

Public value creation is traditionally considered as the citizens' collective expectations with respect to government and public services. Recent e-government literature indicates that what exactly constitutes public value in digital government is still debated. Whereas previous research acknowledges aspects such as co-production and the...

Adoption of Blockchain Technologies in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain to Combat the Distribution of Falsified Medicinal Products for Human Use

Proof of Delivery Smart Contract for Performance Measurements

The growth of the enterprise blockchain research supporting supply chain management calls for investigations of their impact and mindfulness of their design, use cases, and pilots. With a blockchain design for the Proof of Delivery (PoD) process management, this paper contributes to learning about performance measurement and the transaction...

Collective access management: Distributed access control for co-owned resources

Swiss watches are known around the world as a luxury product. Due to the fact that the product is considered a status symbol of wealth the market for counterfeit watches is a continuing concern of the industry. Historically the watches have primarily been manufactured in Switzerland. In recent years, however, manufacturing is done all over the...

Exploring privacy challenges of blockchain-based supplychains in the pharmaceutical industry

Blockchain is an expanding technologythat offers benefits when applied to supplychain management. This distributed ledgertechnology is combined with supply chainsfor its intrinsic characteristics. For instance,traceability, immutability, and more arediscussed. In this paper, we first presentprivacy-related challenges encountered whenapplying...

Tracing Blockchain Value: Understanding The Case Of Blockchain In Supply Chain Traceability

Modern supply chain and procurement departments are faced with a lot of challenges. Supply chains have become global, resulting in complex networks. With access to more information customers have access and have become more demanding on issues such as quality or sustainability. This has led to an increased interest among different companies in...

Leveraging Partnerships with Logistics Service Providers in Humanitarian Supply Chains by Blockchain-based Smart Contracts

As humanitarian organizations are struggling to reach an increasing number of beneficiaries, humanitarian-business partnerships, such as the use of logistics service providers (LSPs), promise to improve effectivity and efficiency of humanitarian assistance. Blockchain-based smart contracts which ensure automation, transparency, and efficiency...

The future cool chain: Business model design for the smart cool lane of the Air floriculture supply chain

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The Potential of Blockchain for Financial Control in Construction Supply Chains

Blockchain technology is able to guarantee an immutable data record which could avoid disputes and litigations. It could also significantly reduce time and costs through process automation. The technology presents a potential solution for the many legal barriers in BIM, regarding ownership of information. This thesis will continue research based...

Blockchain enabled asset management in the case of X-Decks: Cooperation enhanced by decentralization in the building industry

The building industry is characterized by the creation of organizational silos. These silos are causing frictions and inefficiencies on an operational, financial and managerial level. The following research is approaching these silos within the case of X-Decks, a temporary and circular parking project, and the means of blockchain technology.<br/...

DECOUPLES: A Privacy-Preserving Solution for Traceability in Supply Chains

Traceability is an increasingly important aspect of the supply chain with several highlights throughout the last few decades. Parties, such as consumers and government agencies, have shown an increase in demand for information regarding their products and materials. Studies throughout the last few years have proposed approaches for a...

A Blockchain Architecture for Reducing the Bullwhip Effect

Supply chain management is hampered by a lack of information sharing among partners. Information is not shared as organizations in the supply chain do not have direct contact and/or do not want to share competitive and privacy sensitive information. In addition, companies are often part of multiple supply chains and trading partners vary over...

Design of a software architecture supporting business-to-government information sharing to improve public safety and security: Combining business rules, Events and blockchain technology

Toensurepublicsafetyandsecurity,itisvitallyimportantforgovernmentstocol- lect information from businesses and analyse it. Such information can be used to determine whether transported goods might be suspicious and therefore require physical inspection. Although businesses are obliged to report some information, they are reluctant to share addi-...