As infrastructure for information and communication technology develops and for strategic purposes or in order to reduce costs, organisations organise around smaller units and workplaces geographically distant from a main workplace, i.e. distance work or e-work. An increased application of ework, i.e. an information based activity which use information and communication technology, leads to an ...

In contrast to a rich literature on telework in Europe and North America, little analysis of this form of working has been undertaken in Asian contexts. This paper summarises the main issues raised about telework in the Euro-American context and the more limited writing on telework in Asia. It suggests a number of factors which need to be taken into account in further empirical investigation of...

The fear of managers that they will lose control once their employees start teleworking is hindering acceptance and use of teleworking. As an alternative the concept of clan control can be used, which is a way to create a sharing of assumptions and goal congruence among a group of individuals. Since clan control does not require close monitoring it can easily be used in a teleworking context wh...

In this paper, we are concerned with knowledge workers that want or need to improve their work performance, and choose to do so by reflective learning. These knowledge workers think back to own work experiences, critically re-evaluate them, and distil lessons learned relevant to their own work practice. We highlight in this work the functions of sharing own work experiences, observations and in...

Some of the problems that multi-cultural virtual teams experience include: time delays in replies, lack of synergy among cross-cultural team members, communications breakdowns, unresolved conflicts among members, limited hours allowed to be worked and different holidays. This paper reviews major challenges faced by multi-cultural virtual teams and describes some managerial implications. Althoug...

This paper reports on efforts to set up a research capability in speech technology for two minority languages (Welsh and Irish), where the focus is on ensuring that this capability will outlive the project that provided the initial impetus (the WISPR project). The existing situation at the start of the project is summarized, together with the challenges (setting up plant and equipment from scra...

this article offers a reflexive and anthropological contribution to the current volume of scripta Instituti Donneriani aboensis. It reflects on the experience of conducting anthropologic al work at home – or across homes – I considered this research to be an experience of ‘Jewish ethnog raphy’ as a Jewish ethnographer. However, my own ‘Jew-ish’ background meant that I had become ‘neither fish n...