An Evaluation of the Demand for Telework and Smart Work Centres in Rural Areas: A Case Study from Latvia

Alise Vitola; Iveta Baltina

doi:10.2478/euco-2013-0016

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An Evaluation of the Demand for Telework and Smart Work Centres in Rural Areas: A Case Study from Latvia

European Countryside

Volume 5 (2013): Issue 3 (September 2013)

By: Alise Vitola and Iveta Baltina

Open Access

|Sep 2013

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