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The Agile Development concept of Pair Programming is actually quite similar to this. While it's not a direct dictation/writing system, you still have one person thinking and producing code, and another person reviewing as the code is written. Pair Programming incorporates most of the pros you listed, except that both programmers must be at the computer. I ...

I have tried this, I find it's a good way to introduce a new programmer to a system. The new programmer gets some committed code, and experience using the system, which acts as a big confidence boost when you cut them loose to work alone. Working in a pair with a programmer who is already familiar with the system (I personally haven't tried this), I would ...

I am not sure if research papers will help as I imagine this is a problem with your upper management. My boss would let me work from home till I didn't have a better working place at office. The thing I would suggest is to take your stand and tell the management in proper words 'This is a totally inappropriate environment to work. You see, my work requires ...

I used a variation of Pair Programming at my last job. Some of the problems we encountered were above our skill levels (both of us were just students), so we used to just sit at the same machine and code out a solution to the problem. Rather than one person tell the other what to code, we just took the keyboard and mouse and coded the next section after ...