Individual, social and situational determinants of telecommuter productivity

Information and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1037-1049

  Neufeld, Derrick J ^a   Fang, Yulin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beliefs and attitudes; Discriminant analysis; Productivity; Telecommuting; Virtual organization

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BELIEF AND ATTITUDES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; REMOTE WORKERS; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

TELECOMMUTING;

EID: 23844438624     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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