Blockchain Technologies for Supply Chain Logistics Management. The Risk of Creating a False Myth with Negative Consequences for Local Development

Although Information Technology has always played a strategic role in business management, its importance has evolved significantly in recent years, reflecting the progressive transformation of manufacturing environments and the consequent growth in the complexity of interdependent functions related to the logistics management of global supply chains. In this key field of world trade, in addition to the relevance of Big Data, the use of Blockchain technology is becoming increasingly widespread. Access to this technology, in addition to offering benefits, is often a prerequisite for a supplier to be part of a supply chain. However, the disintermediation and lack of third-party control implicit in this technology may allow large companies to have a binding influence on production standards and choice options for possible repositioning of suppliers, in search of higher value-added shares within a supply chain, as well as the spatial distribution of production activities, negatively affecting the development processes of specific territories.