What We’ve Learned So Far About Blockchain for Business

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2. M. Iansiti and K.R. Lakhani, “The Truth About Blockchain,” Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 (January-February 2017): 118-127.

3. S. Madnick, “Blockchain Isn’t as Unbreakable as You Think,” MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 2 (winter 2020): 66-70; and C. Catalini and P. Michelman, “Seeing Beyond the Blockchain Hype,” MIT Sloan Management Review 58, no. 4 (summer 2017): 17-19.

4.Deloitte’s 2020 Global Blockchain Survey: From Promise to Reality,” Deloitte, June 16, 2020, www2.deloitte.com.

5. For an in-depth case study on the development of TradeLens, see T. Jensen, J. Hedman, and S. Henningson, “How TradeLens Delivers Business Value With Blockchain Technology,” MIS Quarterly Executive 18, no. 4 (December 2019): 221-243.

6. M.C. Lacity, “Blockchain Foundations for the Internet of Value” (Fayetteville, Arkansas: Epic Books, 2020).

7. R. Van Hoek, B. Fugate, M. Davletshin, et al., “Integrating Blockchain Into Supply Chain Management: A Toolkit for Practical Implementation” (London: Kogan Page, 2019).

8. J.V. Micallef, “What’s in Your Cellar? Counterfeit Wines Are a Multibillion Dollar Problem,” Forbes, Dec. 1, 2018, www.forbes.com.

9. G. Perrone, “Restoring Trust in the Wine Industry, From Grape to Glass,” Ernst & Young, 2018, www.ey.com.

10. S. Gupta, S. Duncan, T. Mondal, et al., “HFS Top 10 Enterprise Blockchain Services 2020,” HFS Research, April 24, 2020.

11. S. Somerville, presentation at the Sam M. Walton College of Business Blockchain Center of Excellence Workshop, Fayetteville, Arkansas, June 6, 2019.

12. N. Morris, “Automated Trade Payments Prove Popular for We.Trade Blockchain,” Ledger Insights, January 2020, www.ledgerinsights.com.

13. Iansiti and Lakhani, “The Truth About Blockchain,” 118-127.

14. S. Wass, “We.Trade and Batavia Merge Blockchain Platforms for Trade Finance,” Global Trade Review, Oct. 3, 2018, www.gtreview.com.

15.The Launch of eTradeConnect and the Collaboration With We.Trade,” Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Oct. 18, 2018, www.hkma.gov.