RFID Adoption and Productivity Growth in U.S. Retail Supply Chains
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چکیده
Ten years have passed since Wal-Mart’s public announcement about its RFID technology adoption plan in 2003. There has been a slowdown of RFID technology adoption since 2008. Many U.S. retailers do not consider adopting the RFID technology because of the uncertainty of return on investment and the lack of business cases. This paper evaluates labor productivity of RFID adopted retailers. This paper uses objective data from financial statements and explains association between RFID technology and adopted retailer’s productivity. The regression analyses using the Cobb-Douglas production function suggests that RFID companies have higher labor productivity than non-RFID companies. But the gap between RFID and non-RFID is not significant.
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