著者

阿部 智和

出版者

長崎大学

雑誌

經營と經濟 : 長崎工業經營専門學校大東亞經濟研究所年報 (ISSN:02869101)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.88, no.1, pp.27-50, 2008-06

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This paper focuses that some the relationship between communication patterns and the distance. The paper shows that an inverse relationship between the distance separating employees and the amount of face to face communication occurring between them. And the paper also shows that the distance positively correlates with the amount of telephone calls, and does not with the amount of e-mail. The research reported here indicates that telephone calls are convenient alternative to face to face communication when geographically dispersed employees want to communicate. And it also indicates that the common belief that e-mail are convenient alternative to face to face communication when geographically dispersed may be false, and that the use of e-mail is irrelevant to the distance.