Abstract
Most current blockchain and carbon emission studies are from engineering and sciences disciplines. By incorporating blockchain technology into supply chain integration capabilities, the firms are be able to work collaboratively with each other to enhance the supply chain integration and simultaneously reduce the carbon emission in a supply chain. This paper presents a conceptual framework to understand the role of blockchain in a low carbon supply chain management. Applying the Socio-Technical Theory and Resource-Based View, the research propositions between blockchain, supply chain integration capability and carbon emission are proposed in the research framework. The results indicate that the blockchain technology may be viewed as a strategic management approach to enhance supply chain integration and reduce the carbon emissions. In addition, it may be adopted as an operational tool to track carbon footprint, streamline processes and improve efficiency of carbon management to minimize the overall emissions in supply chains. The paper contributes to the blockchain literature and its applications in low carbon supply chain management and provides recommendation for future research.
Highlights
The climate change has become one of the major challenges in today’s world
Building on the tenets of Socio-technical Theory (STT) we argue that blockchains are important objects of social science and not for their ‘moneyness’ per se [25]
We focused on the application of blockchain in low carbon supply chain management in this article
Summary
The climate change has become one of the major challenges in today’s world. Governments attempt to address the climate change using a wide range of strategies and approaches. There are significant number of studies showing that human activities have responsible for increased levels of carbon dioxide which lead to increase in the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and significant climate changes. In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there’s a more than 95 percent probability that human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet [1]. According to Shaw et al [2] up to 90% of an organization’s environmental impact lies in the supply chain, either upstream (suppliers, manufacturing phase) or downstream (consumers, product use phase); it is imperative to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) in supply chains [3]
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