Information Systems (IS) managers from two geographic regions of the United States, the West Coast and the Southeast, were selected as the population to study. The IS managers were asked to respond to a series of twelve advantages and eleven disadvantages associated with telecommuting. Each item's importance was recorded on a seven point Likert scale, where a one indicated very unimportant and ...

Title of Dissertation: TWO EMPIRICAL ESSAYS IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS Yi Jiang Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professors Maureen Cropper and William Evans Externalities associated with automobile use have long been an important topic in environmental and urban economics. Air pollution and traffic congestion constitute two main external costs of driving (Parry, Walls and Harr...

Environmental pressures are pushing business organizations to adopt telecommuting, while technological barriers to telecommuting are diminishing. These factors are contributing to the overall trend of increased utilization of telecommuting employees (TCE). Therefore it is crucial for business organizations to recognize which functions can be successfully transferred to TCEs, which characteristi...

This paper draws upon a series of studies that have been undertaken in Minnesota to better understand the implications for home-based online activities relating to work (e.g. telecommuting) and community activities (e.g. distance education). Three waves of data collection activities were conducted: a survey of telecommuters in public and private organizations, a series of follow-on indepth inte...

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Development of technology has made possible the invention of innovative and modern methods to solve partially the problems caused by traffic congestion, through decreasing the need for physical transportation; one such method being telecommuting. Few predictions have been reported regarding its aggregate demand at the level of a city, generally because of the complexity and multi-dimensionality...

This literature review has been prepared to synthesize and assess previous large-scale evaluations of telecommuting. First, a conceptual framework is proposed to organize the inputs and outputs of a macro-scale telecommuting benefit-cost analysis. Then, four federal and regional reports are examined in terms of methodology, assumptions, economic approach, and major findings. This review identif...

We analyze a 2002 survey of Southern California residents to evaluate the relative importance of factors that affect workers’ propensity to telecommute and telecommuting frequency. The survey collected a wealth of individual demographic information as well as job type, industry, and employer characteristics from about 5,000 residents. In agreement with previous studies, we find that the propens...