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Title
A Framework for the Evaluation of Factors Affecting Smart Contract Adoption and Enforceability in Port Supply Chain Industry in Ghana
Creator
David King Boison, Ahmed Antwi-Boampong, Samuel Agbesi, Dennis K Agboh
Description
This study examines the adoption of smart contracts from the legal, technological, and cultural perspectives in the port supply chain network and how these factors influence smart contracts enforceability. This study follows a Design Science Research (DSR) approach that guides developing IT artefacts and their use in practice. To develop our framework, relevance was achieved by investigating shortcomings of smart contract implementations relative to enforceability within the knowledge base of blockchain technology implementations. Additionally, thirty-five major stakeholders were interviewed for their lived experiences. The constant comparative analytical method was applied using open coding for initial categorization of smart contract concepts and axial coding for removal of overlapping concepts while iteratively testing the concepts against data. The factors that emerge from the papers and the expert …
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Date
2022
Source
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=riwB9JUAAAAJ&citation_for_view=riwB9JUAAAAJ:DyXnQzXoVgIC
Language
English