New Understanding of RFID Adoption and Infusion in Retail Supply Chain

Information technology adoption and infusion research has yielded many models in which different determinants have been investigated; however, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as an emerging technology has not been studied well from a supply chain perspective. Using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework, we develop a theoretical model for RFID adoption and infusion. We include the development status of technology, which is an important factor in adoption decisions, but has been ignored in IS literature. By adding maturation of technology as one of determinants of adoption and infusion, the new model is more general and robust than previous adoption models of RFID in literature. We propose to empirically test the model with a large sample size covering the retail supply chain.