Adoption and Diffusion of RFID Technology in the Automotive Industry
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BY: SCHMITT, PATRICK; THIESSE, FRÉDÉRIC; FLEISCH, ELGAR
The
adoption of novel information technologies like Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) can improve the transparency and efficiency
within supply chains. After many years of hyping the RFID technology it
becomes increasingly evident that the actual adoption and diffusion of
RFID lags behind the expectations of its optimistic promoters. In this
paper we identify factors with a top-down approach which are fostering
the adoption and diffusion of RFID in a particular industry such as
automotive. With a look at the theory of innovation diffusion, reviews
of IS and IT diffusion studies with more than hundred factors, case
reports, documented interviews with industry experts and workshops in
the automotive industry we extract the factors compatibility,
complexity, costs, performance and top management support as most
important for the adoption and diffusion of RFID in the automotive
industry, today.