Professional workers @ work: Importance of work activities for electronic and face-to-face communications in the Netherlands

Transportation

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 919-940

  Alexander, Bayarma ^a   Dijst, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electronic and face to face communication; ICTs; Professional workers; The Netherlands; Work activity

Indexed keywords

FACE-TO-FACE COMMUNICATIONS; ICTS; NETHERLANDS; PROFESSIONAL WORKERS; WORK ACTIVITIES;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

COMMUTING; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION MODE;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84864282477     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-012-9400-2     Document Type: Article

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