Space and organizing : on spatial agencing / edited by Gustavo Guzman (Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith University, Australia), Andreas Diedrich (Associate Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden), and Franck Cochoy (Professor of Sociology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and Senior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France, France).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guzmán, Gustavo, editor.

Diedrich, Andreas, editor.

Cochoy, Franck, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spatial behavior.

Life skills.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"This timely book explores how space emerges as people attempt to organize and reorganize their everyday activities. From the workplace to the internet, geographical districts to international development projects, it offers new insights on how created spaces enable further activities as the organizing process evolves. From a poststructuralist perspective, expert contributors look at the importance of agencing for understanding organizing within and among multifarious spaces, which in turn provides a means of explaining how organizing unfolds through combinations of spatio-material and agential practices. Extending this research by highlighting the agential dynamics of organizing in relation to space, this book unpacks the concept of agencing, before considering how relational approaches to space have influenced the idea of spatial agencing. Connecting the work of Michel Callon and Franck Cochoy, Space and Organizing joins a forward-thinking and ever-expanding body of research. As space and society are the result of diverse ongoing activities that enable further organizing to take place, the book concludes that we should abandon the idea of a given space that people inhabit and transform. This book offers a meaningful avenue to rethink how we interact with nature, distribute our activities, and organize our practices. Aimed at business and management researchers, PhD candidates and postgraduate students with a particular interest in organization studies and organizational behaviour, this book offers ways to engage with more positive routes of spatial agencing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction: Shifting perspectives on the organizing properties of space / Andreas Diedrich, Gustavo Guzman and Franck Cochoy

2. Spatial agencing, privilege and new ways of working / Lucia Crevani and Claudia Manca

3. Messy space = creative space: Boundary work in organizational creativity / Anna Grzelec

4. Constructing the workplace: The agency of space, human and non-human agencements / Karolina J. Dudek

5. Agencing influencer femininity through cyberspatial relations / Magdalena Petersson McIntyre

6. Between skills development and rural development: Agencing a Swedish training centre for furniture manufacturing in South Africa / Andreas Diedrich and Airi Rovio-Johansson

7. The role of space and aesthetics in directing and reinforcing human agency: Organizing space in a protestant mission station in colonial congo / Simon Larsson

8. Economics performativity and its consequences for accounting and organizational spaces: The case of public sector reforms / Peter Skærbæk, Kjell Tryggestad and Mark Christensen

9. Spatial agencing, geographies of marketisation and the multiple spaces of the global economy / Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler

10. Robot-like rockets as "double agents" in outer space / Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges

11. Epilogue: A reflexive experiment of/on spatial agencing / Franck Cochoy

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781800881563 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.