Mobility of knowledge work and affordances of digital technologies

International Journal of Information Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 54-62

  Nelson, Sarah Beth ^a   Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Thomson, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital technologies; Information practices; Knowledge work; Mobile devices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MOBILE COMPUTING;

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION PRACTICES; KNOWLEDGE WORK; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; MOBILE WORKERS; WORK CONDITION; WORK PRACTICES;

DIGITAL DEVICES;

EID: 85006699091     PISSN: 02684012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2016.11.008     Document Type: Article

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