Electronic workplace surveillance in context: privacy, motivation, and performance
Robin Guohuibin Li · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2021
Blockchain technology has been receiving growing interest among policymakers for its use in complex and transaction-oriented areas. We investigate the adoption of blockchain technology for monitoring the exchange and use of resources for scientific research and collaboration. In this chapter, we explore the relationship between three types of trust - mutual, social, and fiduciary - and blockchain by looking at the social contexts in which scientific collaborations are embedded. Based on socio-technical perspectives, we propose that the relationship between blockchain and trust is complex and depends on cultural values and ethical predispositions of scientists. Our framework suggests that scientists will have four different cognitive entry points to understand and adopt blockchain for resource exchanges. We find that the use of blockchain can increase fiduciary trust for scientists who have modernist values and prefer procedural justice; yet, it will have a lower impact on trust for scientists with traditional values. In general, the use of blockchain for resource exchange would have lower impacts on mutual and social trusts.