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The work-related affordances of business travel
journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-09, 14:45 authored by Donald Hislop, Carolyn AxtellSociological understanding of how business travellers make use of travel time is somewhat lacking. This article addresses this gap in knowledge via presenting an analysis of survey-based data collected from business people travelling by plane, train and car. Through disaggregating the data by travel mode, journey stage, technology use and task type the article provides a level of granular detail in the general patterns of business travellers’ travel time behaviour not previously provided by other surveys. Utilizing the concept of ‘affordances’, the article shows how the type of work activities undertaken are shaped by the dynamic interaction between the characteristics in the travel environment, the type of work tasks undertaken and work technologies utilized in carrying out these tasks and the active choices of business travellers.
Funding
The data presented here were collected with the aid of a British Academy Small Grant (Grant Reference: SG-52312).
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Work, Employment and SocietyCitation
HISLOP, D. and AXTELL, C., 2015. The work-related affordances of business travel. Work, Employment and Society, 29(6), pp.950-968.Publisher
SAGE Publications / © The AuthorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This article was published in the journal Work, Employment and Society [© SAGE] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017014559767ISSN
1469-8722Publisher version
Language
- en