The impact factors for adopting RFID technology in Chinese enterprises

Chen Xiaohong; Wang Fuqiang

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The impact factors for adopting RFID technology in Chinese enterprises

Chen Xiaohong, Wang Fuqiang

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Since Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an information technology bringing tremendous values to the enterprises, what kinds of factors impact the RFID adoption for Chinese enterprises becomes an important research question. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), combining with the features of RFID, a RFID adoption model which integrates three aspect factors, that is, the technology, organization and institution, and external environment is established. The empirical research shows that the application level of RFID in Chinese enterprises is still very low. The usefulness perception, ease use perception, coercive pressure, mutual trust between partners, and customer concern for privacy have significant impacts on the behavioral intentions of enterprises to adopt RFID. Moreover, the ease use perception and the support from senior managers also indirectly impact on the behavioral intentions to adopt RFID according to usefulness perception. However, the impacts of senior manager support, information systems infrastructure, normative pressure, and mimetic pressure on the behavioral intentions of enterprises to adopt RFID are insignificant.

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RFID / TAM / institutional theory / structural equation model

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