Why Some SME’s in the Czech Republic Adopt Telework and Others Not?

Vrchota, Jaroslav; Frantíková, Zuzana; Vlčková, Miroslava

Why Some SME’s in the Czech Republic Adopt Telework and Others Not?

European Countryside

Volume 11 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)

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Jaroslav Vrchota, Zuzana Frantíková and Miroslava Vlčková

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2019-0033 | Journal eISSN: 1803-8417

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Submitted on: Feb 5, 2019

Accepted on: Aug 1, 2019

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