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Enhancing trust in global supply chains: Conceptualizing Digital Product Passports for a low‑carbon hydrogen market

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Industries and energy markets around the world are facing mounting pressure to decarbonize, prompting them to transformprocesses and supply chains towards sustainability. However, a lack of credible sustainability data proves to be a considerablebarrier for emerging markets for sustainable products: Against the background of complex and globalized supply chains, itis necessary to verify the sustainability claim of products in order to demand price premiums for sustainable products in thelong run. To enable this, it is necessary that stakeholders in globalized supply chains are willing to share relevant data alongthe entire supply chain for increasing traceability and reducing information asymmetries. Using the example of internationalhydrogen supply chains, we study how data can be shared between different stakeholders using Digital Product Passportswhile addressing stakeholders’ concerns about data privacy and disclosure. In our work, we develop design principles thatprovide insight into how a Digital Product Passport should be designed to verify the hydrogen’s carbon footprint in a reliableway and to ensure the willingness of stakeholders to share their data. We follow a multi-step approach with a structured literaturereview followed by expert interviews and qualitative content analysis for a synthesis of design principles. Our researchillustrates that a Digital Product Passport must collect data comprehensively and automatically, process it in a decentralizedand tamper-proof manner, protect privacy and sovereignty of stakeholders, and ensure interoperability.

Data economyDecarbonizationDigital Product PassportsHydrogenSupply chainsVerification

Paula Heess、Jakob Rockstuhl、Marc‑Fabian Körner、Jens Strueker

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FIM Research Center, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth,Germany||Branch Business & Information Systems Engineeringof the Fraunhofer FIT, Bayreuth, Germany

FIM Research Center, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth,Germany

2024

Electronic markets

Electronic markets

ISSN:1019-6781
年,卷(期):2024.34(1)
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