The Determinants of RFID Adoption in the Logistics Industry - A Supply Chain Management Perspective

摘要: Despite the literature exploring factors of adopting information technology (IT) applications for logistics industry, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is still considered an innovative technology, because its unique characteristics compared with other IT applications. To avoid negative effects derived from careless investments, companies in Taiwan’s industry must evaluate that could affect adoption RFID prior to introduction. This research employed encoding and utilized a questionnaire survey aim assessing this within industry. Based on results discriminant analysis verification, investigation found competition marketplace, pressure transaction partners, suppliers’ environment, cost, integration supply chain strategy, complexity RFID, mutual standard were among critical factors. anticipates these as crucial beneficial initial introduction phase adoption.