DRL028 PhD Seminar on Blockchain Applications in Supply Chain Management (Spring 2024)

About the course

The course covers fundamental concepts within blockchain technologies (BC) and their applications in supply chain management (SCM). Examples include historical perspectives, BC basics, basic cryptography, peer-to-peer transactions, BC structure, monetary policy and mining, forks and attacks, beyond bitcoin, Ethereum, smart contracts, and enterprise BCs. Examples of relevant use cases include BC applications in food-, clothing-, construction- and health industries. Cross industry solutions like Digital Product Passports (DPP), electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services (eIDAS), decentralized identity solutions and AI and combined with blockchain will be discussed.
The course participants will do pre-course preparation by reading papers and writing a pre-course report to be presented at day 1. During the course participants present research papers selected from a list of papers, followed by discussions by fellow Phd students and lecturers. Students will explore the scientific literature on a selected topic, and proceed to write a working paper as a group effort under guidance of lecturers.

Teaching semester: Spring 2024, Week 22, May 27 – May 31.

• Application deadline: 1 May 2024

• Application form: https://nettskjema.no/a/391780

Lecturers

• Nitin Vasant Kale, Professor of Information Technology Practice, University of Southern California, USA

• Arvind Upadhyay, Professor of Operations, Logistics and SCM, London Metropolitan University, UK

• Alok Mishra, Professor of Data Management & Software Engineering, NTNU, Norway

• Bjørn Jæger, Professor of Informatics, Molde University College, Norway

• Associate Professor Anolan Milanés, Molde University College, Norway

Guest lecturer(s)

The course is connected to the following study programs

• Philosophiae Doctor in Logistics (PhD)

Required prerequisite knowledge

1. Accepted as a student in a PhD program in logistics, SCM, information systems, or similar

2. Completed pre-course reading and pre-course hand-in of report. Guidelines will be provided upon registration.

The student's learning outcomes after completing the course

Ability to:

• Describe BC fundamentals

• Describe how transparency can be implemented in SCs by BC

• Evaluate environmental aspects of BC applications

• Apply decision models for when to use BC

• Understand research approaches and how to apply them

• Write academic papers on BC in SCM

Forms of teaching and learning

Lectures, presentation of research papers, organised development of your research ideas into a working paper on application of BC

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

Three mandatory tasks must be completed to receive the 5 ECTS points:

1. Pre-course submission of a report.

2. Attendance at all lectures.

3. Development of a working paper

Examination

• Form of assessment:Presentation of the working paper

• Duration: One Week

• Grading scale: Pass / Fail

Syllabus

Literature (preliminary)

1. Alzoubi, Y. I., & Mishra, A. (2023). Green blockchain–A move towards sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production, 430, 139541.

2. Balasubramanian, S., Shukla, V., Islam, N., Upadhyay, A., & Duong, L. (2023). Applying artificial intelligence in healthcare: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Production Research, 1-34.

3. Calatayud, A., Mangan, J. and Christopher, M. (2019), "The self-thinking supply chain", Supply Chain Management, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 22-38

4. Francisco, K & Swanson, D (2018), ‘The Supply Chain Has No Clothes: Technology Adoption of Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency’, Logistics, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 2-13

5. Jraisat, L., Jreissat, M., Upadhyay, A., & Kumar, A. (2023, January). Blockchain technology: the role of integrated reverse supply chain networks in
   sustainability. In Supply chain forum: An international journal (Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 17-30). Taylor & Francis.

6. Milanés, A. and Jæger, B. (2023) Teaching Programming Blockchain Applications to undergraduate students, In NIKT: Norwegian ICT Conference for Research and Education, Stavanger 27-30 November. https://www.uis.no/en/nikt2023 Proceedings not yet ready.

7. Nakamoto, S. (2009). Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Manubot.

8. Samadhiya, A., Yadav, S., Kumar, A., Majumdar, A., Luthra, S., Garza-Reyes, J. A., & Upadhyay, A. (2023). The influence of artificial intelligence techniques on disruption management: Does supply chain dynamism matter?. Technology in Society, 75, 102394.

9. Srivastava, D. K., Kumar, V., Ekren, B. Y., Upadhyay, A., Tyagi, M., & Kumari, A. (2022). Adopting Industry 4.0 by leveraging organisational factors. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 176, 121439.

10. Upadhyay, A., Mukhuty, S., Kumar, V., & Kazancoglu, Y. (2021). Blockchain technology and the circular economy: Implications for sustainability and social responsibility. Journal of cleaner production, 293, 126130.