Knowledge Work in Distributed Environments: Issues and Illusions.

Although Finland is one of the most advanced and competitive economies in the world, with a sophisticated technological infrastructure, only four per cent of Finnish wage earners regard themselves as doing telework, and a further four per cent had tried telework. Empirical evidence of telework is presented in this paper.

[1]  Jean Hartley,et al.  Case study research , 2004 .

[2]  J. Nilles.  Managing Telework: Strategies for Managing the Virtual Workforce , 1998 .

[3]  M. Polanyi.  Chapter 7 – The Tacit Dimension , 1997 .

[4]  Philip Powell,et al.  The New Barbarian Manifesto: Ian Angell, Kogan Page, 2000, ISBN 0-7494-3151-2 , 1999, J. Strateg. Inf. Syst..

[5]  Pak Yoong,et al.  Knowledge work and telework: an exploratory study , 2000, Internet Res..

[6]  Owen Darbishire.  Book Review: 'Teleworking: International Perspective, from Telecommuting to the Virtual Organisation' edited by Paul J. Jackson and Jos M. Van der Wielen. Routledge, London and New York, 1998 , 2000 .

[7]  Leslie Haddon,et al.  Telework and the changing relationship of home and work , 1994 .

[8]  Wendell Bell,et al.  The Third Wave. , 1982 .

[9]  Nicole B. Ellison,et al.  Social Impacts , 1999 .

[10]  Barbara Steward.  Changing Times , 2000 .

[11]  Leslie Haddon,et al.  Approaches to understanding teleworking , 1999 .

[12]  Colin Coulson‐Thomas.  IT and New Forms of Organisation for Knowledge Workers: Opportunity and Implementation , 1991 .

[13]  Nicola Armstrong.  Flexible Work in the Virtual Workplace: Discourses and Implications of Teleworking , 1999 .

[14]  Auditing the Board: A New Approach to the Measurement of Company Performance , 1980 .

[15]  Rosann Webb Collins,et al.  Technology Requirements and Work Group Communication for Telecommuters , 2001, Inf. Syst. Res..

[16]  A. Büssing,et al.  TELEWORKING AND QUALITY OF LIFE , 2002 .

[17]  Alex Reid.  The telecommunications-transportation tradeoff: Options for tomorrow by Jack M. Nilles and F. Roy Carlson Jr, Paul Gray, and Gerhard J. Hanneman 196 pages, John Wiley and Sons, London, New York, Sydney, Toronto, 1976, £17·50, $29·15 , 1977 .

[18]  Lars Qvortrup,et al.  FROM TELEWORKING TO NETWORKING : Definitions and trends , 2002 .

[19]  David Lamond,et al.  Teleworking: Frameworks for Organizational Research , 2001 .

[20]  Rosann Webb Collins,et al.  Distributed Work Arrangements: A Research Framework , 1998, Inf. Soc..

[21]  C. Stanworth,et al.  Telework and the Information Age , 1998 .

[22]  Raimo Blom,et al.  Social Contradictions in Informational Capitalism: The Case of Finnish Wage Earners and Their Labor Market Situation , 2002, Inf. Soc..

[23]  Ian O. Angell,et al.  The New Barbarian Manifesto: How to Survive the Information Age , 2000 .