Mobile Virtual Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Concepts and Prevalence

   1. Emerging Mobile Virtual Work

      • Erik Andriessen, Matti Vartiainen

      Pages 1-12

   2. Mobile Virtual Work — Concepts, Outcomes and Challenges

      • Matti Vartiainen

      Pages 13-44

   3. Mapping the Mobile eWorkforce in Europe

      • Karsten Gareis, Stefan Lilischkis, Alexander Mentrup

      Pages 45-69

   4. New Forms of Work in Labour Law

      • Minna Helle

      Pages 71-93

3. Mobility in Work

   1. Virtually Connected, Practically Mobile

      • Mark Perry, Jackie Brodie

      Pages 95-127

   2. Collaboration in Mobile Virtual Work: a Human Factors View

      • John R Wilson

      Pages 129-151

   3. Model-based Design of Mobile Work Systems

      • Ludger Schmidt, Holger Luczak

      Pages 153-176

   4. Usability in IT Systems for Mobile Work

      • Niklas Johansson, Torbjörn Lind, Bengt Sandblad

      Pages 177-202

   5. Participative Design for Home Care Nursing

      • Marion Wiethoff, Thierry Meulenbroek, Hans Stafleu, Rogier van Boxtel

      Pages 203-229

   6. Well-being and Stress in Mobile and Virtual Work

      • Peter Richter, Jelka Meyer, Fanny Sommer

      Pages 231-252

   7. Building Scenarios for a Globally Distributed Corporation

      • Veli-Pekka Niitamo

      Pages 253-265

   8. Case Descriptions of Mobile Virtual Work in Practice

      • Robert M Verburg, Stefania Testa, Ursula Hyrkkänen, Niklas Johansson

      Pages 267-288

4. Organisational Strategies

   1. Knowledge Sharing in Mobile Work

      • Mariano Corso, Antonella Martini, Luisa Pellegrini

      Pages 291-318

   2. Factors Influencing the Diffusion of New Mobile Services

      • Sven Lindmark, Mats Magnusson, Filippo Renga

      Pages 319-342

   3. Mobile Workplaces and Innovative Business Practice

      • Hans Schaffers, Liz Carver, Torsten Brodt, Terrence Fernando, Robert Slagter

      Pages 343-368

   4. Mobile Virtual Work: What Have We Learned?

      • Matti Vartiainen, Erik Andriessen

      Pages 369-386

5. Back Matter

   Pages 387-392

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Dear Reader This is a book about mobile virtual work. It aims at clarifying the basic concepts and showing present practices and future challenges. The roots of the book are in the collaboration of few European practitioners and - searchers, who met each other under the umbrella of the Swedish SALTSA programme (see next page) in January 2002 in Stockholm. The group was first called ‘ICT, Mobility and Work Organisation’ but redefined itself quickly as ‘Mobile Virtual Cooperative Work’ group. The change of the name reflects the development of reasoning in the group. We could not find much material on mobile work, certainly not systematic studies, - though a growing interest in mobile technologies and services could be found. Practices of telework and virtual organizations were better known, but we were convinced that the combination with mobile work was so- thing different and new. Our main target became to understand what it was all about. The next step was an expert meeting in October 2004 at Rånäs Castle again in Sweden. A wider group of experts was invited to present their views on mobile virtual work and ideas about book chapters from different perspectives of working life. Some of the expertise could be found through the network of the AMI@Work family created by the New Working En- ronments unit of the European Commission’s Information Society Dir- torate-General. Also close collaboration was developed with the related MOSAIC program.

• Design
• Information Technology (IT)
• Mobile Organization
• Organisation
• Stress
• Virtual Work
• business
• collaboration
• human factors
• knowledge
• management
• organization
• organizations
• technology
• usability

• Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  J. H. Erik Andriessen

• Laboratory of Work Psychology and Leadership, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

  Matti Vartiainen

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