Orchestration and Decentralized Governance in Permissioned Blockchains: A Systematic Mapping of Operational Approaches

• Matheus Lázaro Honório da Silva UFG
• Gislainy Velasco UFG
• Eliomar Araújo de Lima UFG
• Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto UFG
• Sergio T. Carvalho UFG

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wblockchain.2026.22944

Resumo

Permissioned blockchains support interorganizational processes in regulated environments and require governance, identity and access management, infrastructure provisioning, and lifecycle automation. This study presents a systematic mapping of orchestration, provisioning, and decentralized governance in permissioned blockchains. The protocol follows PICOC and PRISMA and defines research questions, a three-block search string, selection criteria, and a quality assessment checklist. The study examines 158 records from seven sources and selects 23 primary studies. It classifies the evidence into operational categories and synthesizes the results by research question. The results show coverage of architectures, stacks, and operational procedures, but reveal gaps in governance, identity and access management, and end-to-end lifecycle automation. Hyperledger Fabric appears as the most frequently used platform, although the study does not use it as a search filter. The findings indicate that the main challenges lie in control plane design and in coordinating critical changes across organizations. The study derives design implications for open-source, stack-agnostic orchestration solutions.

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