A cross-national comparison of perceived strategic importance of RFID for CIOs in Germany and Italy

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-47

  Leimeister, Stefanie ^a   Leimeister, Jan Marco ^b   Knebel, Uta ^a   Krcmar, Helmut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross national comparison; Perceived strategic importance; PLS; RFID; SEM; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CROSS-NATIONAL; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL SETTINGS; CUSTOMER SERVICES; DECISION MAKERS; PERCEIVED STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 59349090929     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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