The rise of the "next-generation bar code": An international RFID adoption study

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 328-345

  Thiesse, Frédéric ^a   Staake, Thorsten ^b   Schmitt, Patrick ^c   Fleisch, Elgar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Continental AG ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovations; Electronic product code; IT adoption; Radio frequency identification; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052613224     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598541111155848     Document Type: Article

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