Mobility and Technology in the Workplace (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hislop, Donald

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contemporary period has witnessed the rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology. This book charts the profound implications these technological changes have for workers and business organizations. From an organizational point of view they have the potential to transform the nature of organizations, through allowing workers to be incr

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134067794
• Artikelnr.: 38267787

Autorenporträt

Donald Hislop is a Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University Business School.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1. Introduction Donald Hislop Work Space/Place
2. Working on the Move: Subverting the Logic of Non-space John Holm & Gavin
Kendall
3. Working on the Move: The Social and Digital Ecologies of Mobile Work
Places Laura Forlano
4. Voluntary Ghettos and Mobile Bureaucracy: Civic Activity and Acts of
Citizenship Under Threat Tommy Jensen Work-Related Travel
5. Travelling to Work: A Century of Change Colin G. Pooley
6. The Business of Train Travel: A Matter of Time Use Glenn Lyons, David
Holley & Juliet Jain
7. Geographies of Business Travel in the Professional Service Economy
James R. Faulconbridge & Jon V. Beaverstock Mobile Work Practices
8. The Lonely Life of the Mobile Engineer? Carolyn Axtell & Donald Hislop
9. Re-Space-ing Place: Towards Mobile Support for Near Diagnostics Mikael
Wiberg
10. 420 Years of Mobility ICT Enabled Mobile Interdependencies in London
Hackney Cab Work Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood & Carsten Sorensen
11. Context Matters: Un-ubiquitous Use of Mobile Technologies by the Police
Daniel Pica & Carsten Sorensen Home Work Dynamics
12. Mobile Phones, Spillover and the 'Work-Life Balance' Diannah Lowry &
Megan Moskos
13. Freedom and Flexibility with a Ball and Chain: Managers and their Use
of Mobile Phones Keith Townsend & Lyn Batchelor
14. Travel, Availability and Work-life Balance Ann Bergman & Per Gustafson
15. Do Mobile Technologies Enable Work-Life Balance? Dual Perspectives on
BlackBerry Usage for Supplemental Work Catherine Middleton, Public Policy
16. Mobile Work and Challenges for Public Policy Dan Wheatley, Irene
Hardill, Anne Green