Understanding relationships among teleworkers' e-mail usage, e-mail richness perceptions, and e-mail productivity perceptions under a software engineering environment

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-173

  Higa, Kunihiko ^a   Liu Sheng, Olivia R ^b   Shin, Bongsik ^c   Figueredo, Aurelio Jose ^d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; ENGINEERS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

MEDIA CHOICE; MEDIA PRODUCTIVITY; MEDIA RICHNESS; TELEWORKERS;

PERSONNEL;

EID: 0033704165     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.846784     Document Type: Article

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