Improving social sustainability and reducing supply chain risks through blockchain implementation: role of outcome and behavioural mechanisms

Chaudhuri, A.; Bhatia, M.; Kayikci, Y.; Fernandes, K.J.; FossoWamba, S.

doi:10.1007/s10479-021-04307-6

Bridging the Healthcare Gap: Understanding Continued Telemedicine-Usage Behaviour in Emerging Economies (2025)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Padhy, R., Sahu, A. K., & Chaudhuri, A. (online). Bridging the Healthcare Gap: Understanding Continued Telemedicine-Usage Behaviour in Emerging Economies. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-05-2024-0308

Purpose
This study aims to analyse the role of factors responsible for continued telemedicine usage in emerging economies.

Design/methodology/approach
A sequential mixed-methods approach was used to analyse the data. This included in-depth inter... Read More about Bridging the Healthcare Gap: Understanding Continued Telemedicine-Usage Behaviour in Emerging Economies.

Digitalization of Spare Parts Provision: Co-evolution of Digital Service Providers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (2025)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Jayaram, J., & Holmström, J. (online). Digitalization of Spare Parts Provision: Co-evolution of Digital Service Providers and Original Equipment Manufacturers. International Journal of Production Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2025.2453828

Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) face challenges associated with spare parts provision, such as high inventory, and missed deliveries due to inventory obsolescence or long supplier lead times. Digitalisation of spare parts, enabled by additive... Read More about Digitalization of Spare Parts Provision: Co-evolution of Digital Service Providers and Original Equipment Manufacturers.

Digitalization for circular economy and operational excellence practices: A paradox theory perspective on performance improvement in manufacturing firms (2024)
Journal Article
Prashar, A., & Chadhuri, A. (2025). Digitalization for circular economy and operational excellence practices: A paradox theory perspective on performance improvement in manufacturing firms. Business Strategy and the Environment, 34(1), 1154-1170. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4031

The present study evaluates how the joint implementation of circular economy (CE) and operational excellence (OE) practices supported by the adoption of industry 4.0 technologies (Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics) influence manufacturing fir... Read More about Digitalization for circular economy and operational excellence practices: A paradox theory perspective on performance improvement in manufacturing firms.

Digitalisation in Food Supply Chains to build resilience from disruptive events: A combined Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge-based view (2024)
Journal Article
Pal, T., Ganguly, K., & Chaudhuri, A. (2024). Digitalisation in Food Supply Chains to build resilience from disruptive events: A combined Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge-based view. Supply Chain Management, 29(6), 1042-1062. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-02-2024-0108

Purpose
Building resilience in food supply chains is considered vital to tackle disruptions and ensure the availability of food. This study aims to empirically explore how firms operating in food supply chains can develop dynamic capabilities and us... Read More about Digitalisation in Food Supply Chains to build resilience from disruptive events: A combined Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge-based view.

Impact Pathways: Digital Product Passport for embedding circularity in electronics supply chains (2024)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Waehrens, B. V., Treiblmaier, H., & Jensen, S. F. (online). Impact Pathways: Digital Product Passport for embedding circularity in electronics supply chains. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-01-2024-0012

Purpose – This impact pathways paper identifies drivers and barriers for digital product passport (DPP) applications in electronics supply chains and to derive future research pathways.
Methodology – 39 interviews were conducted with three Original... Read More about Impact Pathways: Digital Product Passport for embedding circularity in electronics supply chains.

Virtual warehousing through digitalized inventory and on-demand manufacturing: a case study (2024)
Journal Article
Sharifi, E., Chaudhuri, A., Farahani, S. D., Staal, L. G., & Waehrens, B. V. (2025). Virtual warehousing through digitalized inventory and on-demand manufacturing: a case study. Computers in Industry, 164, Article 104184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2024.104184

Novel digital on-demand manufacturing technologies provide a significant opportunity to support development of virtual warehousing and in turn improve supply chain performance. However, the implementation of virtual warehouse comes with a set of chal... Read More about Virtual warehousing through digitalized inventory and on-demand manufacturing: a case study.

Supply chain resilience and improving sustainability through additive manufacturing implementation: a systematic literature review and framework (2023)
Journal Article
Priyadarshini, J., Kr Singh, R., Mishra, R., Chaudhuri, A., & Kamble, S. (online). Supply chain resilience and improving sustainability through additive manufacturing implementation: a systematic literature review and framework. Production Planning and Control, https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2023.2267507

Additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly transforming supply chains across various sectors. This study explores the current academic literature on AM applications in the supply chain and practitioner literature to explore the application of AM across v... Read More about Supply chain resilience and improving sustainability through additive manufacturing implementation: a systematic literature review and framework.

Use of delivery drones for humanitarian operations: analysis of adoption barriers among logistics service providers from the technology acceptance model perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Edwards, D., Subramanian, N., Chaudhuri, A., Morlacchi, P., & Zeng, W. (2024). Use of delivery drones for humanitarian operations: analysis of adoption barriers among logistics service providers from the technology acceptance model perspective. Annals of Operations Research, 335(3), 1645-1667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05307-4

Delivery drones are yet to be adopted as a systematic delivery system for humanitarian operations but have the potential to substantially increase the efficiency and effectiveness of future delivery options. Thus, we analyse the impact of factors aff... Read More about Use of delivery drones for humanitarian operations: analysis of adoption barriers among logistics service providers from the technology acceptance model perspective.

Implementation of Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain Finance Solutions in the Agricultural Commodity Supply Chain: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Bhatia, M. S., Chaudhuri, A., Kayikci, Y., & Treiblmaier, H. (2024). Implementation of Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain Finance Solutions in the Agricultural Commodity Supply Chain: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective. Production Planning and Control, 35(12), 1353-1367. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2023.2180685

Agricultural commodity supply chains are characterized by the involvement of multiple intermediaries, lack of access to finance and poor financial conditions of farmers. Additionally, there exist numerous inefficiencies and a lack of transparency in... Read More about Implementation of Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chain Finance Solutions in the Agricultural Commodity Supply Chain: A Transaction Cost Economics Perspective.

Humanitarian management strategy for interstate movement of migrant workers in India during COVID-19 pandemic: An optimization based approach (2023)
Journal Article
Palit, N., Chaudhuri, A., & Mishra, N. (online). Humanitarian management strategy for interstate movement of migrant workers in India during COVID-19 pandemic: An optimization based approach. Annals of Operations Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05199-4

India faced a unique situation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic when millions of migrant workers, in different states had to be transported to their home states as workplaces shut down. The governments in respective states faced challenges of min... Read More about Humanitarian management strategy for interstate movement of migrant workers in India during COVID-19 pandemic: An optimization based approach.

Healthcare 3D Printing Service Innovation: Resources and Capabilities for Value Co-Creation (2022)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Naseraldin, H., & Narayanamurthy, G. (2022). Healthcare 3D Printing Service Innovation: Resources and Capabilities for Value Co-Creation. Technovation, 121(102596), Article 102596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102596

Healthcare 3D printing (3DP) is in nascent stage and some service providers are facilitating its adoption across hospitals in the world. There is limited research on healthcare 3DP services, the business models of such service providers, the value th... Read More about Healthcare 3D Printing Service Innovation: Resources and Capabilities for Value Co-Creation.

Sustainability Practices and Performance in European Small-and-Medium Enterprises: Insights from Multiple Case Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Moursellas, A., De, D., Wurzer, T., Skouloudis, A., Reiner, G., Chaudhuri, A., …Dey, P. K. (2023). Sustainability Practices and Performance in European Small-and-Medium Enterprises: Insights from Multiple Case Studies. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 3(2), 835-860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-022-00224-3

The advancement of sustainability trajectories is a critical challenge for most of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs require specific considerations with regard to business methodologies for achieving and enhancing sustainability, sinc... Read More about Sustainability Practices and Performance in European Small-and-Medium Enterprises: Insights from Multiple Case Studies.

Socio-technical capabilities for blockchain implementation by service providers: multiple case study of projects with transaction time reduction and quality improvement objectives (2022)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Bhatia, M. S., Subramanian, N., Kayikci, Y., & Dora, M. (2024). Socio-technical capabilities for blockchain implementation by service providers: multiple case study of projects with transaction time reduction and quality improvement objectives. Production Planning and Control, 35(9), 978-991. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2022.2128865

The objectives of this paper are to analyse how blockchain can help in transaction time reduction and quality improvement in supply chains. It also aims to identify the social and technical capabilities needed by the service providers for blockchain... Read More about Socio-technical capabilities for blockchain implementation by service providers: multiple case study of projects with transaction time reduction and quality improvement objectives.

The stakeholder’s roles in risk management related to food supply chain recalls: a systematic literature review (2022)
Journal Article
Oliveira, L., Silva, A. D., Pereira, C. R., & Chaudhuri, A. (2023). The stakeholder’s roles in risk management related to food supply chain recalls: a systematic literature review. The International Journal of Logistics Management, 34(1), 106-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-05-2021-0261

Purpose: Food supply chains (FSCs) are becoming increasingly complex and vulnerable to recall risks due to quality failures. Measures for supply chain risk management can minimize these recall risks. However, this responsibility must be shared by all... Read More about The stakeholder’s roles in risk management related to food supply chain recalls: a systematic literature review.

Contextualising the role of external partnerships to innovate the core and enabling processes of an organisation: A resource and knowledge-based view (2022)
Journal Article
Fernandes, K. J., Milewski, S., Chaudhuri, A., & Xiong, Y. (2022). Contextualising the role of external partnerships to innovate the core and enabling processes of an organisation: A resource and knowledge-based view. Journal of Business Research, 144, 146-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.091

The knowledge-based view (KBV) theory argues that organisations gain a competitive advantage by adopting strategies to capitalise on their knowledge resources, e.g., organisational culture, managerial decision-making and innovative new processes. Lar... Read More about Contextualising the role of external partnerships to innovate the core and enabling processes of an organisation: A resource and knowledge-based view.

Does Resilience Reduce Food Waste? Analysis of Brazilian Supplier-Retailer Dyad (2022)
Journal Article
OliveiraCosta, F., Moraes, C., Silva, A., Delai, I., Chaudhuri, A., & Pereira, C. (2022). Does Resilience Reduce Food Waste? Analysis of Brazilian Supplier-Retailer Dyad. Journal of Cleaner Production, 338, Article 130488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.130488

Food waste negatively impacts the three dimensions of sustainability. Environmentally and financially, it represents a waste of natural resources and increases the cost respectively. Socially, it represents an ethical issue as about 800 million peopl... Read More about Does Resilience Reduce Food Waste? Analysis of Brazilian Supplier-Retailer Dyad.

Circular economy and digital capabilities of SMEs for providing value to customers: Combined Resource-Based View and ambidexterity perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Subramanian, N., & Dora, M. (2022). Circular economy and digital capabilities of SMEs for providing value to customers: Combined Resource-Based View and ambidexterity perspective. Journal of Business Research, 142, 32-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.12.039

Some small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are involved in recycling plastic waste to produce innovative products. These SMEs have adopted digital technologies, such as 3D printing and blockchain, to gain competitive advantage from their circular... Read More about Circular economy and digital capabilities of SMEs for providing value to customers: Combined Resource-Based View and ambidexterity perspective.

The role of operations and supply chains in mitigating social disruptions caused by COVID-19: a stakeholder dynamic capabilities view (2021)
Journal Article
Devi, Y., Srivastava, A., Koshta, N., & Chaudhuri, A. (2023). The role of operations and supply chains in mitigating social disruptions caused by COVID-19: a stakeholder dynamic capabilities view. The International Journal of Logistics Management, 34(4), 1219-1244. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-04-2021-0235

Purpose: The disruption caused by COVID-19 exhorts to reiterate the role of operations and supply chain management (OSCM) in achieving social sustainability. Therefore, the present study aims to develop a conceptual understanding of the OSCM ecosyste... Read More about The role of operations and supply chains in mitigating social disruptions caused by COVID-19: a stakeholder dynamic capabilities view.

Visualisation of ripple effect in supply chains under long-term, simultaneous disruptions: A System Dynamics approach (2021)
Journal Article
Ghadge, A., Er, M., Ivanov, D., & Chaudhuri, A. (2022). Visualisation of ripple effect in supply chains under long-term, simultaneous disruptions: A System Dynamics approach. International Journal of Production Research, 60(20), 6173-6186. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2021.1987547

Supply chains (SCs) are exposed to multiple risks and vulnerable to disruption propagation (i.e., the ripple effect). Despite established literature, quantitative analysis of the ripple effect in SCs considering simultaneous, long-term disruptions (i... Read More about Visualisation of ripple effect in supply chains under long-term, simultaneous disruptions: A System Dynamics approach.

Improving social sustainability and reducing supply chain risks through blockchain implementation: role of outcome and behavioural mechanisms (2021)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Bhatia, M., Kayikci, Y., Fernandes, K., & FossoWamba, S. (2023). Improving social sustainability and reducing supply chain risks through blockchain implementation: role of outcome and behavioural mechanisms. Annals of Operations Research, 327, 401–433. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04307-6

The implementation of blockchain technology holds promise for improving social sustainability and minimizing risks across the supply chain. A theory-driven analysis of how blockchain implementation affects social sustainability and minimizes risks (o... Read More about Improving social sustainability and reducing supply chain risks through blockchain implementation: role of outcome and behavioural mechanisms.

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