Abstract
The economic and strategic gain attracts the software industry to adopt the global software development (GSD) phenomenon. Besides the significant advantages, the GSD firms also face certain critical challenges mainly related to security and management perspective. Blockchain is the new revolutionary technology that offers over the globe secure storage via distributed databases. The objective of this study is to investigate how the adoption of blockchain is beneficial for the GSD project. We have conducted interviews with academic researchers and case studies with industry practitioners to identify the impact of blockchain on GSD projects. We have identified ten key critical areas of GSD the effectively addressed by using the blockchain technology in GSD context. A comparative analysis is conducted with the finding of academic researcher and industry practitioners, and the results ((W=0.86, p=0.005) shows that there is a strong agreement between the understanding of academic researchers and industry practitioners. Besides, we have developed a hypothetical model based on the findings of both studies that shows the positive relationship of blockchain implementation in the GSD domain. We believe that the findings of this study will encourage the practitioners and researchers to develop the new plan and strategies for the adoption of blockchain in GSD.
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