Kakihara, Masao and Sørensen, Carsten 
ORCID: 0000-0002-2002-9383
(2004)
Practicing mobile professional work: tales of locational, operational, and interactional mobility.
Info, 6 (3).
pp. 180-187.
ISSN 1463-6697
Abstract
Fueled by strong market forces as well as by increasingly ubiquitous and pervasive mobile technologies, shifts in working practices and the application of mobile technologies have been occurring around the turn of the millennium. One such change concerns the work of professionals. This paper discusses the emergence of the mobile professional, through a field study of more than 60 professional workers in Tokyo during 2002. The paper concludes that one must broaden one's conception of mobility and conceptualize mobile professional work in terms of locational, operational, and interactional mobility. Furthermore, some implications for a new design of mobile professional work and technology use are drawn from the analysis of the field study: ICT as mobility-booster; maintaining multiple ongoing interactions; the importance of personal networks; and places as material foundations for interaction.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1... |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 Emerald Group Publishing Ltd |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2008 15:16 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 21:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/15555 |
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