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Abstract in English:
This chapter studies today’s work-life by exploring the relatively new phenomenon of coworking, where independent workers join a shared workspace. In order to understand coworking as both physical spaces and movement, the chapter links three research streams: office space research, leadership research and sociological research on ‘flexible capitalism’ and new ways of working. Independent members of a coworking spaces do not work for the one and same company, and because of changes in work-life from fixed employment and linear careers to temporary work contracts and projectification, traditional work communities are partly dispersing. Yet, it is argued, modern capitalism at the same time arouses a need for community. The chapter will discuss coworking from the perspective of local community and plural leadership.
Editor(s) Full Names Arja Ropo, Erika Sauer
Open Access? Yes
Book Title In Leadership in Spaces and Places
Publication Year 2015
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
ISSN/ISBN 978783477913
DOI 10.4337/9781783477920.00008
English | Discipline Management