Personal artifact ecologies in the context of mobile knowledge workers

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 75, Issue , 2017, Pages 469-483

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact ecology; Mobile knowledge worker; Mobile technology; Nomadic work

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ARTIFACT ECOLOGIES; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; NOMADIC WORK; ORGANIZATIONAL CONSTRAINTS;

ECOLOGY;

ARTIFACT; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; WORKER;

EID: 85020029213     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.028     Document Type: Article

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