Paul Bebbington – författare

This book offers a distinctive and evidence-based examination of why blockchain technology has not achieved the transformative impact in supply chain management that many anticipated. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with technology and supply chain executives across the logistics, food and pharmaceutical sectors, it develops a novel analytical framework based on sociomateriality, affordance theory and organisational paradox to explain the tensions and dilemmas limiting blockchain adoption.Readers will benefit from a rich empirical study and a theoretically informed explanation of why blockchain initiatives frequently remain at pilot or proof-of-concept stages. The book provides practical insights into the strategic choices and organisational tensions influencing technology adoption and offers recommendations for unlocking the potential value of blockchain. More broadly, it provides a framework for understanding the challenges associated with the emergence and adoption of new digital technologies in complex organisational settings.The book will be of interest to researchers and students in supply chain management, operations management, information systems, organisation studies and digital innovation, as well as practitioners, consultants and technology leaders responsible for technology and supply chain strategy. It will also appeal to policymakers and professionals seeking to understand the realities of digital transformation beyond the often-optimistic claims surrounding emerging technologies.

It's invaluable to relax and spend time with people of different generations to oneself. .. both youngsters and the elderly. With regard to our World's future, teenagers need to be challenged in different ways. The residential holidays I helped with - through Face2Face Educational Trust- have been as much a blessing to me, as to the youth s participating. The trust, overseen by Kevin Moore, has run Checkmate ( chess ) and Sketchpad (art) weeks, in a rural centre in Bedfordshire many times. All Face2Face events aim to introduce participants to the Christian faith too. It was at one such week that I started to pen my longest poem.. Son s of Adam , when my Christian faith was being challenged by life s events. During travels around the U.K., I devised some less serious odestoo.. Micromoth being one, and Evan Evans . Poetry has helped me reminisce about favourite places and memories. I have included 3 poems about Italy in this selection. But a recent painful season ( bereavement of my mother ) also focused me to compose Lotus Lily .. in her memory, a poem which is deeply emotive to me. The Biblical king, David, found himself expressing many raw feelings to God recalled for us, in the book of Psalms - from which I have drawn much inspiration. Ps. 19 vs 1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork. Ps 42 . vs 1& 2 As the deer pant s for living water, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?