The purpose of this paper is 1) to investigate the effects on the crucial Industry 40 technological innovations that interact between the real and virtual worlds and that are applied in the sustainable supply chain process; 2) to contribute to the identification of the opportunities, the challenges and the gaps that will support the new research study developments and 3) to analyze the impact of the Industry 40 technologies as facilitators of the sustainable supply chain performance in the midst of the Coronavirus (COVID-19),This research is performed through a bibliographic review in the electronic databases of the Emerald Insight, the Scopus and the Web of Science, considering the main scientific publications on the subject,The bibliographic search results in 526 articles, followed by two sequential filters for deleting the duplicate articles (resulting in 487 articles) and for selecting the most relevant articles (resulting in 150 articles),This article identifies the opportunities and the challenges focused on the emerging Industry 40 theme The opportunities can contribute to the sustainable performance of the supply chains and their territories The Industry 40 can also generate challenges like the social inequalities related to the position of the man in the labor market by replacing the human workforce with the machines Therefore, the man-machine relationship in the Industry 40 era is analyzed as a gap in the literature Therefore, as a way to fill this gap, the authors of this article suggest the exploration of the research focused on the Society 50 Also known as “super-smart society,” this recent theme appeared in Japan in April 2016 According to Fukuda (2020), in addition to the focus on the technological development, the Society 50 also aims at the quality of life and the social challenge resolutions,This article contributes to the analysis of the Industry 40 technologies as facilitators in the sustainable supply chain performance It addresses the impacts of the Industry 40 technologies applied to the supply chains in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it analyzes the research gaps and limitations found in the literature The result of this study can add value and stimulate new research studies related to the application of the Industry 40 technologies as facilitators in the supply chain sustainable performance It can encourage the studies related to the COVID-19 impacts on the sustainable supply chains, and it can promote the research development on the relationship among the man, the machine and the labor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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The interest in the implementation of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) is on the rise in the construction sector. One specific type of DLT that has recently attracted much attention i...

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Insights into Blockchain Implementation in Construction: Models for Supply Chain Management

Blockchain technology is booming in many industries. Its application in supply chain management is also gradually increasing. Supply chain management (SCM) has long been committed to reducing costs and increasing efficiency and is trying to optimise resources and reduce the sector's fragmentation. Trust has always been an important factor in managing supply chain relationships, and it also affects the efficiency of supply chain operations. To this end, this study aims to examine how trust is affected by the introduction of blockchain technology in construction supply chain management.,This study is based on semi-structured interviews and publicly available information from experts in blockchain and construction supply chain management. Through content analysis, the data are analysed thematically to explore how various types of trust, such as system-based, cognition-based and relation-based, are affected by blockchain technology.,Blockchain technology provides solutions for data tracking, contracting and transferring resources in supply chain management. These applications help enhance the various sources of trust in SCM and provide supply chain partners with protection mechanisms to avoid the risks and costs of opportunistic behaviour in collaboration, shifting trust from relational to system-based and cognition-based.,This study focuses only on inter-organisational rather than interpersonal trust and empirical data from experts whose knowledge and cognition could be subjective.,Leveraging the potential of digitalisation to manage trust requires that leaders and managers actively try to improve contractual arrangements, information sharing and being open to new innovative technologies like blockchain.,From a relational view of supply chain management, the extent to which blockchain technology can develop and spread depends on the readiness of the social capital to accept decentralised governance structures.,This study builds upon an original data set and discusses features and applications of blockchain technology, explores the sources and dimensions of trust in supply chain management and explains the impact of blockchain technology on trust.

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Xiaoning (Alice) Qian

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Shifting trust in construction supply chains through blockchain technology