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Purpose – Examines teleworking schemes at Rotherham and Doncaster councils, in South Yorkshire, England. Takes account … not only of employees actually undertaking teleworking, but also of their office‐bound colleagues. Design … effects of teleworking on a wide group of organisational stakeholders. Shows that the home‐workers were more productive, had …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light upon the reasons why knowledge workers are offered considerable autonomy, and the extent to which they are given the freedom to determine how and when they work. Design/methodology/approach – In order to examine the level of flexibility...
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Summarizes the results of a European Commission project led by the author, which has examined business re‐structuring across Europe and the relationship between business process re‐engineering (BPR) and new ways of working. Found that there are many ways other than BPR for achieving...
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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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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 – Teleworking is often indicated as a flexible working arrangement. This paper seeks to highlight that …
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This paper considers strategic green issues of teleworking in terms of the environment, transport, location, office … involved. Teleworking technologies are variously implemented for green computing initiatives and many advantages include lower …, increased profit margins. The paper initially investigates the appropriateness of a working definition of teleworking with …
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The shift to remote work mode significantly impacts the way people work, especially middle managers, who play a fundamental role in organizations. There is a broad consensus that they have a key responsibility in deploying strategies, and in terms of operations and organizational culture. Based...
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