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Theme: Computers & Industrial Engineering
Blockchain-based applications for enhancing cybersecurity in manufacturing and building supply chain resilience
The ongoing Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has created significant challenges for global supply chains and revived the discussion about supply chain resilience (SCRes) (Hoek, 2020; Belhadi et al., 2020; Giahi et al., 2020; Kaur et al., 2020; Govindan et al., 2020). Thus, during the pandemic’s first wave, many manufacturers and retailers suffered significant damage, and some had to close their businesses. This is in addition to the distributive impact of cyber-attacks, which has increased significantly during the pandemic (Carrapico & Farrand, 2020). Several researchers and practitioners have been calling for an enhanced supply chain management capable of dealing with the severe disruptions caused by the raging pandemic and resulting cyber-attacks (Hakak et al. 2020; Buil-Gil et al., 2020). Thus, to address this critical situation, researchers are increasingly focusing on SCRes in manufacturing by leveraging emerging technologies (Belhadi et al., 2019). Indeed, to cope with production and distribution delays caused by disruptions in the supply chain for labor and materials alongside cyber-attacks, many researchers and organizations have exploited new digital technologies such as Blockchain Technology (BT), machine learning, cyber-physical systems, and smart and connected products to build resilience SCRes (Belhadi et al., 2019; Kamble et al., 2020; Ramezankhani et al., 2018; Govindan, 2021).
On the other hand, due to the complex, multifaceted and multidimensional concept of resilience, we still lack a unified and integrated theory on SCRes (Kamalahmadi et al., 2016; Wong et al., 2020). Furthermore, the SCRes strategy application can only be effectively implemented by the organizations if they have an environment that promotes transparency and fault tolerance (Levalle et al., 2015). Thus, BT can be suitable to foster SCRes as it promotes transparency, guards against embezzlement risks, and expands productivity and efficiency (Sunny et al., 2020). Specifically, BT has excellent potential to radically change our socio-economical systems by guaranteeing secure transactions between untrusted entities, reducing their cost, and simplifying many processes (Bürer et al., 2019). However, research on the BT in the Information Systems discipline for supply chain resilience is still sparse. Furthermore, few studies have addressed the technical applications and management decisions in adopting this technology for resilience and tackling different current and emerging issues. Besides, BT can pose several implementation challenges such as a lack of organizational readiness or technical expertise/infrastructure, issues with scalability, and limited financial resources for BT investment (Lohmer et al., 2020).
This Special Issue (SI) aims to foster investigations in blockchain innovations and provide an opportunity to achieve supply chain resilience based on the use of novel technological, organizational, and societal settings involving BT. Thus, this SI will assist both manufacturing and service supply-chain practitioners in building smart SCRes strategies by addressing both short- and long-term risk mitigation response strategies based on BT. This SI aims to establish substantial threat mitigation frameworks and incident response mechanisms based on BT that practitioners can deploy to improve SCRes from a security perspective. This SI welcomes contributions that draw upon the stock of knowledge within the information systems, cybersecurity, operation management, and supply chain disciplines, incorporating management-oriented approaches into the BT research.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Role of blockchain technology in increasing SCRes and sustainability in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Use of BT-based cryptocurrencies and smart contract applications to enhance SCRes and operations sustainability
- Theory-based assessment of blockchain prospects for SCRes and operations sustainability
- Blockchain-based solutions for specific industries or business areas
- Barriers and enablers of blockchain adoption for SCRes and sustainable supply chain performance
- The role of emerging technologies adoption in predicting supply chain disruptions
- Evaluation and governance of BT for developing SCRes.
- The impact of BT on organizational governance
- Risk management and incident response frameworks for manufacturing context
- Security and privacy of BT based smart applications using Machine Learning techniques
- Cybersecurity vulnerabilities detection and prevention to foster SCRes
- Transparency, anonymity, information, and privacy control in next-generation BT
- Blockchain based authentication, authorization, and accounting mechanisms for SCRes and sustainability
- Blockchains in software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) for SCRes applications
- Performance Optimization for Blockchain using machine learning techniques
- Resources allocation in BT-based systems
- Optimization BT-based strategies for investment in Industry 4.0
The adopted methodologies should be underpinned by theoretical constructs used to study supply chain management, supply chain resilience, blockchain technologies, smart application, cybersecurity, etc. Review papers are also welcome.
Submission Guidelines:
Manuscripts should be submitted through the publisher’s online system, Editorial Manager (EM) at https://www.editorialmanager.com/caie/. Please follow the instructions described in the “Guide for Authors” given on the main page of the EES website. Please make sure you select “Special Issue” as Article Type and “Blockchain_Manufacturing” as Section/Category. In preparing their manuscript, the authors are required to follow the “Instructions to Authors.” Submissions will be reviewed according to C&IE’s rigorous standards and procedures using double-blind peer review by at least two qualified reviewers.
Publication Schedule:
- Submission Deadline: March 31, 2022
Managing Guest Editor
Prof. Kannan Govindan
DIAS-Chair of Engineering,
SDU Centre for Sustainable Supply Chain Engineering,
Dept. of Technology and Innovation
University of Southern Denmark
Email: [email protected]
Guest Editors
Dr. Karim Zkik
International University of Rabat,
TICLab, ESIN, Rabat, Morrocco
Email: [email protected]
Prof. Sachin S. Kamble
Department of Strategy (Operations and Supply Chain Management),
EDHEC Business School,
Roubaix, France-59057
Dr. Amine Belhadi
Cadi Ayyad University,
Marrakech, Morocco
Dr. Anass Cherrafi
ENSAM-Meknes
Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco
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