Reaching New Heights

through an Understanding of

the Application, Adoption,

and Use of Radio Frequency

Identification (RFID)

IT Management

Chair(s): Cynthia K. Riemenschneider, criemen@walton.uark.edu

Deborah J. Armstrong, darmstrong@walton.uark.edu

Bill Hardgrave, whardgrave@walton.uark.edu

University of Arkansas
479-575-4500
SIG URL: http://www.sigadit.org/

Description:

Businesses and industries across the globe are using an emerging technology, radio frequency identification (RFID) for supply chain management and logistics.  RFID as an information technology is fundamentally different from the GUI-and-database systems studied in the vast majority of IS research, and therefore presents new challenges for understanding its application, adoption, use and impacts. Some companies are at the beginning stage of adoption using a tag-and-ship approach in order to meet a customer or government mandate.  Other companies are reaching new heights in their understanding of the supply chain by using data analytics to understand the data captured through RFID.  This mini-track addresses issues related to the application, adoption, and use of RFID.  We invite submissions including data analytics, case studies, and frameworks.

The mini-track will focus on:

• RFID impact on changes to business processes
• Case studies of RFID adoption and usage
• Protecting physical health and individual privacy
• RFID impact on employees
• RFID impact on changes to vendor/retailer relationships
• Costs of RFID implementation
• Standards for the proliferation and use of RFID

 AMCIS 2007 Colorado        http://www.biz.colostate.edu/amcis07/       Key Dates:

Paper Abstracts Due (optional)	:	Monday, February 5, 2007
Papers Due:		Monday, March 5, 2007
Notification of Acceptance:		Monday, April 16, 2007
Camera Ready Copy Due:		Monday, April 30, 2007

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