Title: The management of teleworking adoption: an organisational study of feasibility perception in industrial and service companies

Authors: Manuela Perez Perez, Angel Martinez Sanchez, M. Pilar de Luis Carnicer

Addresses: Departamento de Economia y Direccion de Empresas, Centro Politecnico Superior, Maria de Luna 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. Departamento de Economia y Direccion de Empresas, Centro Politecnico Superior, Maria de Luna 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain. Departamento de Economia y Direccion de Empresas, Centro Politecnico Superior, Maria de Luna 3, Zaragoza 50018, Spain

Abstract: Teleworking as an integration of information and telecommunication technologies with human resources management, means a new job organisation paradigm for companies working in the new economy. However, there are very few empirical studies that have analysed the teleworking adoption issue from an organisational theory perspective. This paper contributes, with empirical data from industrial and service companies, to the analysis of teleworking diffusion based on hypotheses developed from the agency, institutional and resource-based view theories.

Keywords: teleworking; human resources managers; agency theory; institutional theory; resource-based view of the firm.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2003.003663

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 2003 Vol.3 No.3, pp.226 - 248

Published online: 02 Oct 2003 *

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