Ying Zhang
About
My research project
Blockchain adoptionBlockchain technology has garnered extensive attention from both the media and academia due to its promising business benefits in reducing established intermediaries, promoting trust, and reducing transaction costs. However, the adoption of blockchain technology across industries remains limited. We study the influencing factors of blockchain adoption by organisations in diverse contexts. Importantly, trust and privacy are two permeating elements in the process of blockchain adoption at the organisational and individual level. Systematic literature review (SLR), grounded theory approach, and survey experiment are main methods used in this project.
This project has been funded by University of Surrey. I am honoured to have received the Doctoral College Studentship Award since 2021.
Supervisors
Blockchain technology has garnered extensive attention from both the media and academia due to its promising business benefits in reducing established intermediaries, promoting trust, and reducing transaction costs. However, the adoption of blockchain technology across industries remains limited. We study the influencing factors of blockchain adoption by organisations in diverse contexts. Importantly, trust and privacy are two permeating elements in the process of blockchain adoption at the organisational and individual level. Systematic literature review (SLR), grounded theory approach, and survey experiment are main methods used in this project.
This project has been funded by University of Surrey. I am honoured to have received the Doctoral College Studentship Award since 2021.
My qualifications
ResearchResearch interests
Innovation; Distributed ledger technology and blockchain; Technology adoption; Tourism demand
Research interests
Innovation; Distributed ledger technology and blockchain; Technology adoption; Tourism demand
Publications
To capture the role of politics in tourism, we propose a novel measure to quantify political relations based on text analysis of published diplomatic statements. We explain how political relations affect outbound tourist flows from China to Japan and Korea. Estimated on monthly data (1997m1-2018m12), our model shows how China-Japan disputes affect tourist flows to Korea and how China-Korea clashes influence the number of Chinese tourists going to Japan. The political effects are estimated to peak after three months, but half of the effects vanish in six months. We also observe asymmetries in the political effects—the tourists respond more to negative political shocks than to positive ones, and more to territorial disputes than to war history disputes.
To understand the slow adoption of blockchain technology by organisations, we conduct a systematic literature review of adoption factors using a mixed-methods approach. Using thematic analysis, 880 factors are identified and grouped into 29 themes, which offer a comprehensive overview of the literature. Using statistical analysis, the identified factors are dissected into technological (T), organisational (O), and environmental (E) dimensions (the TOE framework). Themes are further classified as barriers (B), enablers (En), and ambiguous (A) to describe a firm's readiness for blockchain adoption (the BEnA framework). We emphasise the multidimensionality of adoption factors across the TOE dimensions and the conditionality of adoption enablers across the BEnA dimensions. Analysis of research trends shows that recent blockchain adoption literature has focused on elaborating upon existing research themes (involution) rather than on developing new themes (evolution). Based on our analyses, we propose future research directions, including scrutinising the interdependence and multidimensionality of blockchain adoption factors, further examining factors with conditional or unclear effects on adoption, and broadening the contextual, temporal, and theoretical aspects of blockchain adoption research.