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Purpose – Reviews the advantages that luxury hotel Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park has gained by moving from a system of manual timesheets to an automated system. Design/methodology/approach – Reports on the weaknesses of the old system, which meant that the hotel often did not have entirely...
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Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to present the results of a study examining managers' attitudes towards the deployment and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in their organisations. The study comes at a time when ICT is being recognised as a major enabler of...
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This paper develops a model of teleworking adoption based on the principles of the technology acceptance model. The … framework integrates three categories of factors influencing on teleworking adoption: technological, human resources, and … organisational factors. The model fills a gap in the teleworking literature by developing research propositions that take into …
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Purpose – Aims to contribute to the teleworking literature by analysing the differences between teleworking adopters … that teleworking companies have adopted more equipment (per company and per employee), and the differences are … firm size between teleworking adopters and non adopters. Firm size is not an explanatory variable of equipment use in the …
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Purpose – This paper aims at comparing teleworking adoption decision processes of multinational firms operating in … Malaysia and Malaysian indigenous firms. It shows how to make comparative statistical analyses of teleworking adoption decision …, transportation problems, and relative advantage are important telework drivers. Availability of teleworking infrastructures is an …
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine evidence in order to discover if teleworking has a pro‐poor growth … issues are mainly workforce and organizational issues. Findings – There is some evidence that provision of teleworking … teleworking domain for the poor. For instance, the discussed implementation aspects of teleworking and the proposed telework …
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Purpose – Teleworking is often indicated as a flexible working arrangement. This paper seeks to highlight that …
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to describe the impediments to information technology (IT) adoption and possible solutions in the context of business relationships by drawing on case studies conducted in both Australia and Finland in the heavy manufacturing sector....
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The digital revolution on the web/internet is believed to be having a major impact on the performance of firms’ purchasing and supply functions. Beyond anecdotal evidence however, little is known about the actual level of utilisation of web-based interaction technologies in purchasing and...
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