{"id":1231,"date":"2021-06-02T20:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2021-06-21T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:19:49","slug":"economics-professor-discusses-remote-working-and-the-impact-on-small-business-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/06\/02\/economics-professor-discusses-remote-working-and-the-impact-on-small-business-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics professor discusses remote working and the impact on small business performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/tzhang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1233\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/tzhang-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/tzhang-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/tzhang.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Merrick School of Business Associate Professor of Economics Ting Zhang was quoted by writer Margaret McIntyre in a May 29, 2021 article titled &#8220;Amid the pandemic, remote work boosted small business performance,&#8221; in<em> The Academic Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece Zhang shared her thoughts that align with a study that she, and Merrick School of Business Professor Dan Gerlowski and George Mason University Professor Zoltan Acs co-authored in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11187-021-00493-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Small Business Economics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of many contributions she made to the article.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our empirical analysis showed that WFH is associated with overall better small business performance and is on the rise even after the [stay-at-home] mandate ended,&#8221; Ting Zhang, co-author of the study and an associate professor at the University of Baltimore, told The Academic Times. &#8220;However, adopting WFH practices often requires organizational changes, such as surveillance and control or management of the psycho-sociological distance from the work environment, considering limited promotions, raises and career success often associated with WFH. Otherwise, the benefit of WFH could be compromised or even lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academictimes.com\/amid-the-pandemic-remote-work-boosted-small-business-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merrick School of Business Associate Professor of Economics Ting Zhang was quoted by writer Margaret McIntyre in a May 29, 2021 article titled &#8220;Amid the pandemic, remote work boosted small business performance,&#8221; in The Academic Times. In the piece Zhang shared her thoughts that align with a study that she, and Merrick School of Business<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/06\/02\/economics-professor-discusses-remote-working-and-the-impact-on-small-business-performance\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[228,227,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}