Creative and knowledge-intensive teleworkers' relation to e-capital in the Helsinki metropolitan area

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 204-221

  Merisalo, Maria ^a   Makkonen, Teemu ^a,b   Inkinen, Tommi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

creative teleworkers; creativity; e capital; e services; electronic capital; electronic services; Finland; Helsinki; human capital; ICT; knowledge intensity; knowledge intensive teleworkers; metropolitan areas; networking; social capital; social media; social relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882595747     PISSN: 20404468     EISSN: 20404476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJKBD.2013.055870     Document Type: Article

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