Employees' opportunities, preferences, and practices in telecommuting adoption

Information and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 469-482

  Peters, Pascale ^a   Tijdens, Kea G ^b   Wetzels, Cécile ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross section data; Household factors; Individual factors; Job characteristics; Multivariate analyses; Organizational factors; Telework

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PERSONNEL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TELECOMMUTING;

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

JOB ANALYSIS;

EID: 0346781543     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7206(03)00085-5     Document Type: Article

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