Teleworking: International Perspectives: From Telecommuting to the Virtual Organization (Management of Technology and Innovation)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Foreword......Page 18
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 20
Introduction: actors, approaches and agendas: from telecommuting to the virtual organisation PAUL J. JACKSON AND JOS M. VAN DER WIELEN......Page 22
Making sense of teleworking concepts and contexts......Page 40
From teleworking to networking: definitions and trends LARS QVORTRUP......Page 42
Work, space and time on the threshold of a new century CONSTANCE PERIN......Page 61
Conceptualising telework: modern or postmodern? PAUL MCGRATH AND MAEVE HOULIHAN......Page 77
Rethinking the virtual organisation MARTIN HARRIS......Page 95
Understanding and managing boundaries in telework......Page 114
Telework: managing spatial, temporal and cultural boundaries MARTIN KOMPAST AND INA WAGNER......Page 116
No longer a struggle? Teleworkers' reconstruction of the work  non-work boundary KIRAN MIRCHANDANI......Page 139
The experience of teleworking: a view from the home LESLIE HADDON......Page 157
Teleworking and quality of life ANDR BSSING......Page 165
Integrative frameworks for teleworking......Page 188
Organisational assessment in the distributed work environment: using measures of intellectual capital in the planning process ALISTAIR CAMPBELL AND CHARLES GRANTHAM......Page 190
Teleworking service management: issues for an integrated framework SCOTT A. JOHNSON......Page 206
Planning for telework LOIS M. GOLDMAN AND BENJAMIN A. GOLDMAN......Page 228
Flexible work and travel behaviour: a research framework ANN M. BREWER AND DAVID A. HENSHER......Page 236
Telework and crisis management in Japan KOJI SATO AND WENDY A. SPINKS......Page 254
Integrating the teleworking perspective into organisational analysis and learning PAUL J. JACKSON......Page 266
Actors, networks and experiences: international cases of telework......Page 280
Telework as social innovation: how remote employees work together DIMA DIMITROVA AND JANET W. SALAFF......Page 282
Evolution of the telecommuting withdrawal model: a US perspective STEVEN FIREMAN......Page 302
A social innovation in its infancy: experiences with telework centres GEORG AICHHOLZER......Page 313
Organisational fitting and diffusion of new culture: internal telework at telecoms PATRIZIO DI NICOLA AND RUGGERO PARROTTO......Page 324
The mis-match between suppliers and users in telework LENNART STURESSON......Page 340
Telework    the critical management dimension REIMA SUOMI, ARI LUUKINEN, JUHANI PEKKOLA AND MARYA ZAMINDAR......Page 350
Conclusion: new networks and agendas PAUL J. JACKSON AND JOS M. VAN DER WIELEN......Page 358
Index......Page 362