# A Guidance for Blockchain-Based Digital Transition in Supply Chains
## 2 Literature Review and Taxonomy
### Literature Review
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**Articles** & **Focus** & **Key Findings** \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [1] & Benefits of blockchain-based supply chain (SC) & (1) streamline and harmonize information and process flow across supply chain networks; (2) improve data quality; (3) support the timely analysis of supply chain risks; (4) develop efficient business processes between governments and global supply chain stakeholders \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [3] and [PERSON] et al. [17] & Motivators and barriers for blockchain-based SC & (i) motivators: (1) pressures; (2) drivers (ii) barriers: (1) organizational barriers; (2) supply chain-related barriers; (3) technological barriers; (4) external barriers \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [4] & Interaction effects of blockchain to strengthen relationships & At a micro level (people, process, technology, and performance), blockchain technology will ensure: (1) non-manipulation of data, (2) transparency, (3) security, and (4) collaboration among the stakeholders \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [5] & Blockchain diffusion stages & (1) intention, (2) adoption, and (3) routinization \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [7] & SC transparency types & (i) range of transparency; (ii) product transparency; (iii) participant transparency \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [8] & Critical success factors for blockchain-based SC & (1) companies’ capabilities; (2) collaboration; (3) technology readiness; (4) supply chain practices; (5) leadership; (6) governance of the traceability efforts \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [9] & Dimensions to underpin the SC digitalization & (1) efficiency, (2) transparency and traceability, (3) environmental and social impacts, (4) legal liability, and (5) e-market/supply accessibility \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [12] & Five paths for digitalization in SC & (1) data science-enabled SC management, (2) SC agility, (3) humanizing manufacturing through digital manufacturing strategy, (4) omni-channel, and (5) resource-based view and beyond \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [18] & Characteristics of blockchain-based SC & (1) distributed and synchronized across networks; (2) use of smart contracts; (3) based on peer-to-peer networks; (4) immutability of data \\ \[PERSON] et al. [19] & Strengths and weaknesses of blockchain-based operations & (i) strengths: (1) visibility; (2) aggregation; (3) validation; (4) automation; (5) resiliency \\ \[PERSON] et al. [19] & Strengths and weaknesses of blockchain-based operations & (ii) weaknesses: (1) lack of privacy; (2) lack of standardization; (3) garbage in, garbage out; (4) black box effect; (5) inefficiency \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [20] & SC risks & (1) macro risk; (2) demand risk; (3) manufacturing risk; (4) supply risk; (5) infrastructural risk \\ \[PERSON] et al. [21] & SC components for digitalization & (i) digitalization: (1) strategy; (2) organization and culture; (3) operations; (4) products and services; (5) digital customer experience \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [21] & SC components for digitalization & (ii) technology implementation: (6) project management; (7) human and technology relationship; (8) formation of technology infrastructure; (9) technology enablers (iii) supply chain management: (10) integration; (11) automation; (12) reconfiguration; (13) analytics; (14) process \\ \hline [PERSON] et al. [22] & Risks for IoT in SC & (i) environmental risk: (1) economic; (2) social; (3) technological; (4) political \\ [PERSON] et al. [22] & Risks for IoT in SC & (ii) network-related risk: (5) relational aspects; (6) identification of trust \\  & & (iii) organizational risks: (7) internal aspects; (8) high implementation barriers \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 1: Literature review. Accordingly, in the next part of this section, the literature review used analyses the several works related to blockchain, SC, and the integration thereof. The selected literature for blockchain-based SCs review is the following [1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 17; 18; 19; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32].