RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) is a wireless frequency recognition technology that can be used to recognize, trace, and identify people, things and animals using radio frequency. Although current RFID technology can provide wide advantages in ma...
RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) is a wireless frequency recognition technology that can be used to recognize, trace, and identify people, things and animals using radio frequency. Although current RFID technology can provide wide advantages in many fields, most companies are not positively considered adopting this technology.
This paper presents RFID implementation as a type of Innovation. Thus, this research finds influence factors on RFID adoption based on innovation model, and then empirical survey using these factors is conducted among RFID users and companies which plan for adopting RFID. Also, for the result, research provides the direction for using RFID as competitive advantage and activates its usage among organizations efficiently.
To verify the RFID as an innovative technology, pervious innovation theory related researches were studied. RFID innovation factors were categorized into environmental, organizational, and technological factors. Because RFID''''s efficiency and effectiveness increase depending on relationship among organizations, the governing effects from relationship among specified factors (trust and power) were examined.
The result of this research are as follows:
Firstly, though unpredictability of market affects on RFID adoption as an environmental factor, the competition among competitors does not affect the RFID adoption. Considering the current RFID in practice, which is not yet widely used and requires large amount of costs, and its efficiency and effectiveness unproved, it seems that RFID is not considered to be a major factor for gaining competitiveness.
Secondly, the size of organization and support of top management do influence on the adoption of RFID. As the size of an organization increases, the more risk can be taken and more infrastructural resources lead the adoption of new technology. And the top management support tends to lead the adoption of RFID quickly.
Thirdly, IT infrastructure and tag adequacy of each firm impact upon introducing RFID technology. But adequacy of frequency did not impact on its adoption greatly.
It means that a company with fine and stable IT infrastructure can easily adopt new and useful technology for maximizing their capacity with less burden. A optimum tag adequacy can be adopted by the consideration of company for price policy, products, its competitiveness. However, the reason for company''''s consideration of the adequacy of frequency in adopting new technology is that a public institution in charge of national standard decides it by industry and product.
At last, by examining the governing effect, though trust on related companies does not provide governing effect, power among related companies does provide governing effect. Due to large amount of initial costs for adopting RFID, trust on vendors does not affect the adoption of RFID. However, forcing the vendors with less power by the vendors with comparatively larger power let the former group adopt RFID.