Does "out of sight" mean "out of mind"? An empirical investigation of the career advancement prospects of telecommuters

Information Resources Management Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 19-34

  McCloskey, Donna Weaver ^a   Igbaria, Magid ^b  

^a WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Career advancement; Distributed work arrangements; Job performance evaluations; Telecommuting; Telework

Indexed keywords

COSTS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DISTRIBUTED WORK ARRANGEMENTS;

TELECOMMUTING;

EID: 0041880143     PISSN: 10401628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/irmj.2003040102     Document Type: Article

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