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2025
Opportunities and challenges of blockchain technology for negotiation support systems
Opportunities and challenges of blockchain technology for negotiation support systems
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Blockchain Technology (BCT) is the backbone of the next generation of the internet and thus affects how electronic business (e-business) is conducted. While the usage of BCT for the initiation and transaction phases in e-business has been studied, the negotiation aspect has not been considered in a comprehensive manner. The current literature on the utilisation of BCT in electronic negotiations (e-negotiations) primarily focuses on autonomous agents and lacks research on the support of e-negotiations conducted by human negotiators using negotiation support systems (NSSs). This results in the issue that the consequences of a transition to Web3.0-based NSSs are unclear, while other areas of e-business already apply Web3.0 technologies. We address this lack of knowledge following a design-oriented approach in three steps exploring the opportunities and challenges of using BCT for e-negotiations via NSSs. Firstly, the well-established negotiation support system Negoisst is extended by BCT features resulting in the development of a Web3.0-based NSS called NegoisstBCT to demonstrate the technical feasibility of this approach. Secondly, the potential opportunities and challenges of a Blockchain-based NSS are analysed referring to its technical architecture. Thirdly, a generalised view of the application of Web3.0-based NSSs in different settings is taken, discussing future research on BCT in e-negotiations. The present research thus fosters the application of Blockchain-based NSSs in e-negotiations and of NSSs in BCT application areas.
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Group decision and negotiation, 34 (2025), 373-403.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09916-7.
ISSN: 1572-9907
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Witt, J., Schoop, M., & Knaus, K. (2025). Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technology for Negotiation Support Systems. Group decision and negotiation, 34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-024-09916-7
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@article{Witt2025,
doi = {10.1007/s10726-024-09916-7},
author = {Witt, Josepha and Schoop, Mareike and Knaus, Konstantin et al.},
title = {Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technology for Negotiation Support Systems},
journal = {Group Decision and Negotiation},
year = {2025},
volume = {34},
pages = {373--403},
}