A field study of RFID deployment and return expectations

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 599-612

  Whitaker, Jonathan ^a   Mithas, Sunil ^b   Krishnan, M S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Benefits; Business value of IT; Information technology; RFID

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948881532     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00283.x     Document Type: Article

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