Dual-Channel Decisions under Blockchain and Returns

Table 1

Comparison between our study and other related studies.

Authors	Blockchain benefits	Return channels	Application scenarios
Liang and Xiao [35]	Reliability and trustworthy	None	Online direct selling and online distribution
Xu and Choi [36]	Transparency and certification	Online and offline channels	Platform operations under cap-and-trade
Cao et al. [13]	Visibility, smart contract, and authenticity	None	Agricultural supply chain
Liu et al. [18]	Transparency and information disclosure	Retail channel	Traditional two-echelon supply chain
Liu et al. [19]	Trustworthy	Retail channel	Platform supply chain
Ji et al. [20]	Traceability	None	Competitive supply chain
Choi [21]	Transparency	None	Supply chain finance
Choi and Luo [22]	Security and reliability	None	Fashion supply chain
Xu et al. [23]	Trustworthy and traceability	None	Remanufacturing and cap-and-trade
Liu et al. [29]	None	Online and offline channels	Omnichannel retail
Ma et al. [30]	None	Retail channel	P2P platform operations
Wang and He [31]	None	Online channel	E-commerce supply chain
Jena and Meena [32]	None	Online channel	Omnichannel retail
Huang and Jin [33]	None	Online and offline channels	Omnichannel retail
Cao and Choi [34]	None	Trade-in-return	Selling own branded products
Our study	Authenticity and efficiency trustworthy	Online and offline channels	Online direct sales and offline retailing