The sme way of adopting RFID technology - Empirical findings from a German cross-sectoral study

16th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Strüker, Jens ^a   Gille, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adoption and usage; Empirical study; RFID; SMEs

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION AND USAGE; APPLICATION AREA; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN COMPANIES; MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE; RFID TECHNOLOGY; SMES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84870628632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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