The determination of RFID adoption in China

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2008-05
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Liu Wen
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RFID is a way of improving the management and operation efficiency when used in industries of logistics, manufacture and public information service. The aim is to identify best practices that can be adopted and implemented by the organization with the purpose of improve a company's performance. This project aims to study the factors that affecting the adoption of RFID systems in China. Focus has evolved from RFID as a means to improving company performance through the identification of best practice, to the need to identify, manage and transfer best practices. Base on the data collected from 130 respondents, this study examined the model involving environment characters, organizational characters, technology characters, and product characters. The analyses were done through regression method. The findings revealed that environment, technology, product and organizational characters are the most significantly related to the adoption of RFID. The adoption of RFID is positively related to environment and technology. Consequently, the hypotheses in relation to the above-mentioned variables were accepted. With the finding of this study, it is hope that it will provide a detail analysis of which areas to RFID to the manufacturing industry for improvement. In addition, this study will serve as a guideline to those that have intention to extensively used RFID all over the organization in a big way. The implication of this study and suggestions for future research are also discussed in the final chapter.
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RFID is a way of improving the management , and operation efficiency when used in industries of logistics
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