Work-life boundary management and the personal digital assistant.
New mobile information and communication technologies are of special interest to researchers seeking to understand the problematic of boundaries between work and personal-life. This study examines how workers used and interpreted the personal digital assistant (PDA) as a boundary management resource...
| Publicado en: | Human Relations Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 519 - 552 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
March 2007
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