Effect of blockchain on corporate social responsibility in supply chain management
研究了区块链对供应链中企业社会责任的影响，通过三方演化博弈模型分析供应商、零售商和监管者的策略选择，发现市场扩张收益足够大时零售商倾向采用区块链。
Many firms have launched corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to address social and environmental challenges toward Industry 5.0. Numerous firms are considering using blockchain to manage CSR. In this paper, we study the effect of blockchain on CSR within a supply chain containing a supplier, a retailer and a regulator. Since real-life supply chains operate in the long term and related decisions might evolve over time, we apply crowd intelligence to develop a tripartite evolutionary game-theoretic model for exploring the instability of the short-term strategy selection and discussing evolutionary stability. We investigate the strategic stability to uncover the evolution process of strategy selection of each player with corresponding conditions. We consider the mutual influence of three players to analyze the evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) of the game. We prove the existence of ESSs and their conditions. Based on numerical studies, the theoretical findings are verified and the impact of key parameters and different initial states of players are analysed on the evolution trajectories. The results reveal that the retailer prefers to adopt blockchain if the market expansion benefited from blockchain is sufficiently large; otherwise, the supplier strictly follows CSR regulation, the retailer adopts blockchain or the regulator performs strict regulation.