This study investigates whether investors' overreactions to blockchain-related announcements is driven by corporate executive opportunism in the Chinese capital market. We manually collect blockchain-related announcements made by Chinese listed firms over 2016–2022 and conduct an event study...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has transformed healthcare, collecting and transmitting vast medical data. This study proposes an innovative solution, integrating blockchain into IoMT within a fog-cloud computing framework for secure medical data transmission. The blockchain-based...

Purpose This paper presents a review of the state of the art on the application of blockchain and smart contracts to the peer-review process of scientific papers. The paper seeks to analyse how the main characteristics of the existing blockchain solutions in this field to detect opportunities...

Indonesia’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) sector, with over 65 million businesses, is globally the largest. The sector accounts for more than 60 per cent of the country’s GDP and employs over 97 per cent of its workforce. Yet, lack of access to finance due to the nature of the...

Purpose This study aims to empirically examine and analyze the factors that influence the adoption of blockchain technology, particularly within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The study also predicts how adopting blockchain technology may affect SMEs’ market and financial...