User preferences for coworking spaces; a comparison between the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic

Appel‐Meulenbroek, Rianne; Weijs-Perrée, Minou; Orel, Marko; Gauger, Felix; Pfnür, Andreas

doi:10.1007/s11846-020-00414-z

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“…However, there have been few studies on understanding member needs in coworking spaces. The closest related research is on analyzing user preferences for coworking spaces (Weijs-Perrée et al 2019 ; Appel-Meulenbroek et al 2020 ). They showed that accessibility and contract options are among the most important issues to resolve when choosing a specific coworking space.…”

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In search of member needs in coworking spaces

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Coworking spaces represent a new trend for future workplaces. As more building owners are interested in running coworking space businesses, it becomes important to understand both why a potential member chooses one space over another and how to keep existing members at a coworking site. A sound understanding of member needs can make a difference. Unfortunately, very few studies have been conducted as to understanding a member’s basic needs in coworking spaces. In this paper, we aim to identify member’s needs in three coworking spaces in Sweden. Participant observations, immersion, and interviews were used for data collection. The member needs are categorized and structured through the lens of self-determination theory. In total, we uncovered, formulated, and categorized 21 member needs. We found that the fulfillment of one need may lead to the inhibition of another, thus creating tensions between and within coworking members. This research contributes to the literature by addressing the importance and definition of member needs for coworking as well as the created tensions related to these needs, which have been lacking in coworking studies.

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“…In addition, we investigated only German CWS. The results of an international sample would complement the picture (Appel-Meulenbroek et al 2020). We concentrated our data collection on CWS in metropolitan cities for Germany, where they typically locate.…”

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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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“…Business incubators have to be distinguished from several other entities also providing support for start-ups. First, coworking-spaces are partly similar to business incubators as they offer office and social space facilitating personal interactions (Appel-Meulenbroek et al 2020;Bouncken and Reuschl 2018;Rese et al 2021) and fostering innovative behavior (Hughes et al 2018), also to start-ups (Bouncken et al 2020;Barwinski et al 2020). However, coworkingspaces are also used by individuals not necessarily involved with start-ups, such as freelancers or employees with incumbent firms ).…”

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Hatching start-ups for sustainable growth: a bibliometric review on business incubators

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Business incubators hatch start-ups, helping them to survive their early stage and to create a solid foundation for sustainable growth by providing services and access to knowledge. The great practical relevance led to a strong interest of researchers and a high output of scholarly publications, which made the field complex and scattered. To organize the research on incubators and provide a systematic overview of the field, we conducted bibliometric performance analyses and science mappings. The performance analyses depict the temporal development of the number of incubator publications and their citations, the most cited and most productive journals, countries, and authors, and the 20 most cited articles. The author keyword co-occurrence analysis distinguishes six, and the bibliographic coupling seven research themes. Based on a content analysis of the science mappings, we propose a research framework for future research on business incubators.

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User preferences for coworking spaces; a comparison between the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic

Cited by 42 publications

References 44 publications

In search of member needs in coworking spaces

In search of member needs in coworking spaces

Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity

Hatching start-ups for sustainable growth: a bibliometric review on business incubators

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