2024/05/20 by Gyan Wickremasinghe, Wickremasinghe, Gyan, Siofra Frost +5
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Blockchain Technology Applications and Security #Economic and Technological Systems Analysis #Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.12101
openalex publication_date 2024/05/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Industry 4.0 and beyond will rely heavily on sustainable Business Decision Modelling (BDM) that can be accelerated by blockchain and Digital Twin (DT) solutions. BDM is built on models and frameworks refined by key identification factors, data analysis, and mathematical or computational aspects applicable to complex business scenarios. Gaining actionable intelligence from collected data for BDM requires a carefully considered infrastructure to ensure data transparency, security, accessibility and sustainability. Organisations should consider social, economic and environmental factors (based on the triple bottom line approach) to ensure sustainability when integrating such an infrastructure. These sustainability features directly impact BDM concerning resource optimisation, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance and environmental impacts. To further understand these segments, taxonomies are defined to evaluate blockchain and DT sustainability features based on an in-depth review of the current state-of-the-art research. Detailed comparative evaluations provide insight into the reachability of the sustainable solution in terms of ideologies, access control and performance overheads. Several research questions are put forward to motivate further research that significantly impacts BDM. Finally, a case study based on an exemplary supply chain management system is presented to show the interoperability of blockchain and DT with BDM.