Where Home is the Office: The New form of Flexible Work

The Internet in Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 464-495

  Salaff, Janet W ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BOUNDARY WORKS; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; HIERARCHICAL CONTROL; LOCAL COMPUTER; SALES FORCE; TELEWORKERS; TELEWORKING; WORK PROCESS;

TELECOMMUTING;

EID: 84957609652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774298.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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