Title: Analysing perceived role of blockchain technology in SCM context for the Indian manufacturing industry
Venue: IEOR Seminar Room
Date and Time: 20 January 2025 (Monday), 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon.
Abstract: Blockchain is a disruptive technology that promises to embed visibility and trustworthiness in supply chains. This paper examines the perceived role of blockchain in improving SCM and profitability of organisations in the manufacturing industry. It establishes the blockchain benefits for the manufacturing industry using the process of scale development. The proposed hypotheses related to the indirect effects are based on the resource-based view of the firm. The conditional indirect effects for four organisational factors are tested. The research framework is operationalised based on data from 236 practitioners. The findings show that blockchain is perceived to drive improvement in six supply chain dimensions of the manufacturing industry. The breadth of organisation size and geographical dispersion moderates the mediation relationship between blockchain benefits and incremental profitability. Furthermore, the conditional indirect effects are found significant for integration intensity and IT integration. The findings state that blockchain can bring significant improvement in delivery reliability and mass customisation, which would result in increasing the profitability of the organisation. Organisations with low integration intensity, high IT integration and small size organisations are likely to be early adopters of blockchain technology.
Bio: Amit Karamchandani is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques in the Business Management area at MICA Ahmedabad. He has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (India), and is a graduate (B. Tech) in Mechanical Engineering from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. His teaching interests include Supply chain management (SCM), Operations management, Supply chain analytics, Blockchain in SCM, Digital Transformation, Business Statistics, Business Mathematics, and Research Methods for Management. His research interests include Supply chain management, Blockchain, Digital Transformation, Structural equation modeling (SEM), Experimental design, Game Theory and Decision support systems. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching, research, and industry. He has worked for business schools such as the International Management Institute, New Delhi, and the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon. He has seven years of industry experience with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). He worked on several projects at BHEL aimed at business process digitization. He has published in several ABDC A* and A category international peer-reviewed journals such as Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review (TR-E), International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Computers and Industrial Engineering (CAIE), and International Journal of Technology, Intelligence, and Planning (IJTIP). His work has been presented at several reputed conferences, such as POMS, ICESCO, ISDSI, and SOM. He is an invited reviewer for leading OM and IS journals such as the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Annals of Operations Research (AOR), International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), Computers and Industrial Engineering (CAIE), Information System Frontiers (ISF), and Information Technology, and People (ITP).