Process Studies of Organizational Space

dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorStephenson, Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorKuismin, Ari
dc.contributor.authorPutnam, Linda
dc.contributor.authorSivunen, Anu
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Liverpool
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Management Studies
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of California Santa Barbara
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Jyväskylä
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-30T08:17:28Z
dc.date.available2020-11-30T08:17:28Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.description.abstractThe past decade has experienced an increase in the number of studies on organizational space or where work occurs. A number of these studies challenge traditional views of organizational space as a fixed, physical workspace because researchers fail to account for the spatial dynamics that they observe. New technologies, shifting employee-employer relations, and burgeoning expectations of the contemporary workforce blur boundaries between home and work, connect people and things that historically could not be linked, and extend workspaces to nearly everywhere, not just office buildings. Research on these transformations calls for incorporating movement into the physicality of work. Thus, organizational scholars have turned to process studies as ways to examine the dynamic features that create and alter spatial arrangements. However, the rapidly growing work in this area lacks integration and theoretical development. To address these concerns, we review and classify the organizational literature that casts space as a process, that is, dynamically as movements, performances, flows, and changing routines. This review yields five orientations of organizational space scholarship that we label as: developing, transitioning, imbricating, becoming, and constituting. We discuss these orientations, examine how they relate to key constructs of organizational space, and show how this work offers opportunities to theorizing about organizations.en
dc.description.versionPeer revieweden
dc.format.extent797-827
dc.identifier.citationStephenson , K , Kuismin , A , Putnam , L & Sivunen , A 2020 , ' Process Studies of Organizational Space ' , Academy of Management Annals , vol. 14 , no. 2 , pp. 797-827 . https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2018.0146en
dc.identifier.doi10.5465/annals.2018.0146
dc.identifier.issn1941-6520
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/61764
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-2020113020609
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAcademy of Management Annalsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 14, issue 2en
dc.rightsopenAccessen
dc.subject.keywordWork environment
dc.subject.keywordOrganization
dc.subject.keywordChange
dc.subject.keywordVirtual work
dc.titleProcess Studies of Organizational Spaceen
dc.typeA2 Katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessäfi
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