Context matters: The experience of physical, informational, and cultural distance in a rural IT firm

Information Society

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-127

  Goggins, Sean P ^a   Mascaro, Christopher ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; Distributed work; Economic impact; ICT; Regional studies; Rural; Social informatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878230298     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2012.758212     Document Type: Article

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