Teleworking practice in small and medium-sized firms: Management style and worker autonomy

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 218-233

  Clear, Fintan ^a   Dickson, Keith ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; TECHNOLOGY; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745234797     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2005.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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