Identify the risks and challenges of blockchain technology maturity model

Subject Areas : Management

Hamideh Aliakbarpour ¹ , ashraf shahmansouri ² , ghasemali Bazaee ³

1 - Department of Technology Management, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Administrative Sciences Planning and Management, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Business Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-07-16 Accepted : 2021-09-06 Published : 2022-03-21

Keywords: Structural risk, technical risk, legal risk and financial risk,

Abstract :

Identify the risks and challenges of the blockchain technology maturity model with a data-based theory approachAccording to their business, using blockchain maturity models while identifying and resolving this technology's barriers and challenges can affect steps to achieve blockchain maturity. this research qualitatively presents a conceptual model in grounded theory. At First, the initial factors were extracted through reviewing the research background; then, by conducting semi-structured interviews with 12 blockchain technology experts, the data collected. challenges of the blockchain maturity model presented in three stages of coding: were given the research model. The reliability of semi-structural data has confirmed by Test-Retest and intra-subject agreement. data analysis show that structural risks refer to acceleration, change management, Organizational resistance and technical risks to new emergence, interoperability, scalability, and the right to be forgotten in privacy, legal threats to the rules and government of the and the conflict of interest and, financial risks, place lack of planning and incorrect allocation of investment have more emphasis.