ISBN:
9781849804912
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (232 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Organizational behavior
;
Work environment
;
Organizational behavior
;
Work environment
;
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Abstract:
This insightful book poses interesting theoretical and methodological questions for the processes of spatial design and the treatment of workspaces in organizational settings of various kinds. The contributors expertly answer the need for practical field research on spatial settings and materiality in organizations of various sorts. Organizational Spaces explores a wide range of interfaces between built spaces and organizational actors, including the ways the former can potentially affect and shape the behaviours and acts of employees at all levels, as well as clients, other visitors and onlookers. Using innovative interpretive methods, the book provides detailed empirical and theoretical analyses of field research that focus on the meanings that organizational spaces can communicate to multiple audiences. Scholars and graduate students in the areas of organizational culture, cultural change and intervention in organizations, international business, design sciences, as well as in organizational studies more broadly, should not be without this important and highly original resource.
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: the spatial turn in organizational studies -- Part I: Seeing organizational spaces -- Chapter 1: 'All together, altogether better': the ideal of 'community' in the spatial reorganization of the workplace -- Chapter 2: Corridor communication, spatial design and patient safety: enacting and managing complexities -- Chapter 3: Bendable bars in a Dutch prison: a creative place in a non-creative space -- Part II: Living organizational spaces -- Chapter 4: What do buildings do? How buildings-in-use affect organizations -- Chapter 5: The beauty and the beast: the embodied experience of two corporate buildings -- Chapter 6: Space as context and content: the diwan as a frame and a structure for decision-making -- Part III -- Thinking organizational spaces -- Chapter 7: Giving voice to space: academic practices and the material world -- Chapter 8: Virtual worlds for organizational spaces -- Chapter 9: Firms in a film: representations of organizational space, gender and power -- Afterword: Organizational spaces: from 'matters of fact' to 'matters of concern' -- Index.
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