Coworking spaces: Understanding, using, and managing sociomateriality

Bouncken, Ricarda B.; Aslam, Muhammad Mahmood; Qiu, Yixin

doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2020.09.010

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“…Within this physical space, it is not only the infrastructure that fosters entrepreneurial orientation, but the social interaction. The interplay between social aspects and material infrastructure, the socio-materiality, greatly improves the entrepreneurial situation for co-workers (Bouncken et al, 2020e) making the social space an important multiplier of entrepreneurial activities. In this context, entrepreneurial orientation can develop dynamically.…”

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“…While several antecedents, moderators, and outcomes of EO have been reported, we still face an almost complete knowledge void on the spatial component of EO and corporate entrepreneurship. Still, the void is most prevalent given the coworking-space trend that has arisen in the past few years (Bouncken et al, 2020b;Bouncken et al, 2020e;Hughes et al, 2018).…”

Section: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, we show that the established elements describing entrepreneurial orientation do not fit new organizational forms such as coworking-spaces. To coworking-space research (Bouncken et al, 2020c;Bouncken et al, 2020e;Orel, 2019;Waters-Lynch & Duff, 2019;), we contribute a theoretical foundation in corporate entrepreneurship research which has been lacking so far. Our research has managerial implications, stressing that incumbents need to be aware of new and different factors for designing their work environment and their working habits in order to enable entrepreneurial orientation in their company.…”

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Entrepreneurial Orientation in Coworking-Spaces for Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing

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Görmar

2021

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Firms search for new ways of improving their innovativeness and internal entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial orientation has been shown to be a powerful facilitator for these tasks. Previous research has shown that entrepreneurial orientation increases by empowerment and proper leadership, yet we know little about the spaces in which it proliferates. We argue that social interaction and autonomy, as prevalent in coworking-spaces, strengthens and complements entrepreneurial orientation. Following the literature on entrepreneurial orientation, as well as coworking-spaces, we pursue a multiple case study analysis. We find that the elements of entrepreneurial orientation as outset by previous studies does not fully describe the entrepreneurial orientation in corporate coworking-spaces. Our findings stress that corporate entrepreneurship research and practice needs to pay more attention to the spatial and interior settings for improving innovativeness and internal entrepreneurship.

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Entrepreneurial Orientation in Coworking-Spaces for Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing

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Görmar

2021

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“…So-called multiplex ties can involve information, friendship, material, and workflow or competencies (Hoang and Antoncic 2003;Human and Provan 1997;Katz et al 2004). In the context of CWS it is often referred to the concept of sociomateriality (Aslam and Görmar 2018;Bouncken et al 2021). Human and Provan (1997) showed that small and medium firms participating in a network had more multiplex relationships than market firms.…”

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Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity

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Coworking spaces (CWS) are open creative labs that provide a community-like environment and the necessary surroundings for their users to build and maintain networks with different actors inside and outside the CWS. With a wide variety of knowledge and skills available in trusted surroundings as well as similar value orientations, coworkers enjoy favorable conditions to establish their network-style. However, research has not investigated the benefit of coworkers’ social networks as far as their individual creativity is concerned so far. This paper takes several network characteristics into account: structure in terms of network size and centrality in the CWS, but also trusted and reciprocal relationships, supportiveness, diversity of knowledge exchanged, and the individual openness to core coworking values. Based on the literature on social networks and small group research, we developed a research model. We tested it to get deeper insights into the phenomenon by relying on 113 coworkers in 33 private German coworking spaces. The results show that a central position in the CWS allowing for direct exchange and high individual openness to core coworking values positively affects social involvement and the diversity of knowledge exchanged, and finally, a coworker’s individual creativity. Managerial implications include the vital role of a central position in the CWS for creativity and a somewhat balanced composition of coworkers working alone or in a team.

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“…Zum Betreiben eines Coworking-Spaces reicht es nicht aus, nur die Infrastruktur anzubieten. Die aktive Intervention der Community-Manager ist auf sozialer und materieller Ebene notwendig (Bouncken et al 2020b), um eine lebendige Gemeinschaft im Coworking-Space zu schaffen und zu ermöglichen. Ein Teil dieses Managements zielt auf das Veranstaltungs-Geschehen ab.…”

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2020

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Basierend auf den wissenschaftlich ausgearbeiteten Elementen für gute Arbeit in Coworking-Spaces wurden Matching-Instrumente erarbeitet, die Nutzende von Coworking-Spaces sowohl untereinander als auch mit Externen zusammenbringen. Dafür konnten drei verschiedene Matchingformate identifiziert werden, (1) Netzwerkformate, (2) Kooperationsformate und (3) Transferformate. In einem Coworking-Space im ländlichen Raum wurden dafür Veranstaltungen angeboten, um die o. g. Ziele zu erreichen. Es konnte festgestellt werden, dass sowohl kleine als auch große Veranstaltung notwendig sind, um alle Bedürfnisse der Beteiligten abdecken zu können. Potenziale Nachteile der Vielfalt von Veranstaltungsformaten haben sich bei genauer Analyse als Vorteile herausgestellt.

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Coworking spaces: Understanding, using, and managing sociomateriality

Cited by 65 publications

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Entrepreneurial Orientation in Coworking-Spaces for Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing

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