Unlocking the potential: leveraging blockchain technology for agri-food supply chain performance and sustainability

Vern, Priyanka, Panghal, Anupama, Mor, Rahul S, Kumar, Vikas and Sarwar, Dilshad (2025) Unlocking the potential: leveraging blockchain technology for agri-food supply chain performance and sustainability. The International Journal of Logistics Management, 36 (2). pp. 474-500. ISSN 0957-4093

Abstract

Blockchain technology (BCT) has emerged as a powerful tool for enhancing transparency and trust. However, the relationship between the benefits of BCT and agri-food supply chain performance (AFSCperf) remains underexplored. Therefore, the current study investigates the influence of BCT on AFSCperf and sustainability issues. Through a comprehensive literature review, various benefits of BCT are identified. Subsequently, a research framework is proposed based on data collected from questionnaire surveys and personal visits to professionals in the agri-food industry. The proposed framework is validated using partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings reveal that BCT positively impacts AFSCperf by improving traceability, transparency, food safety and quality, immutability and trust. Additionally, BCT adoption enhances stakeholder collaboration, provides a decentralised network, improves data accessibility and yields a better return on investment, resulting in the overall improvement in AFSCperf and socio-economic sustainability. This study offers valuable practical insights for practitioners and academicians, establishing empirical links between the benefits of BCT and AFSCperf and providing a deeper understanding of BCT adoption. Stakeholders, managers, policymakers and technology providers can leverage these findings to optimise the benefits of BCT in enhancing AFSCperf. Moreover, it utilises rigorous theoretical and empirical approaches, drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective encompassing food operations and supply chain literature, public policy, information technology, strategy, organisational theory and sustainability.

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Official URL:	https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110...
Item Type:	Article
Disciplines:	Computing, Maths, Engineering and Natural Sciences > Computing and Information Systems
Depositing User:	Dilshad Sarwar
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2025 08:58
Last Modified:	29 Aug 2025 08:58
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/2493

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