Modeling employees' perceptions and proportional preferences of work locations: The regular workplace and telecommuting alternatives

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 223-242

  Mokhtarian, Patricia L ^a   Bagley, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Proportions logit model; Telecommuting; Telecommuting center

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME AND MOTION STUDY; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; PROPORTIONS LOGIT MODEL;

TRANSPORTATION;

PLANNING METHOD; TELECOMMUTING; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 0034082599     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(99)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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