New work design for knowledge creation and sustainability: An empirical study of coworking-spaces

Sustainable energy transition and circular economy: The heterogeneity of potential investors in rural community renewable energy projects

“…This shared identity is more easily achievable in COPs than in COIs, where place attachment has proved to be an important influence on local responses to CRE developments (Kalkbrenner & Roosen, 2016;van Veelen & Haggett, 2017). Merging COPs and CoPs approaches can facilitate specific knowledge creation and sharing processes (Bouncken et al, 2023) and sustainability dynamic capabilities (Tiberius et al, 2021) necessary for the success of CRE projects in rural settings. Moreover, although COPs and COIs are assumed to pursue different objectives in distinct ways, recent literature recommends a hybrid approach, encouraging COPs to involve COIs to upscale CRE projects and make more significant progress toward climate change mitigation (Walker et al, 2022).…”

“…These approaches put the focus on who are the agents than can promote change and have been argued to be useful in rural societies in terms of empowerment and welfare creation (Wulandhari et al, 2021). Community initiatives can also be linked to "New Work" practices such as coworking that have been related to the creation of an organizational sustainability identity that can be particularly important in CRE projects in rural settings (Bouncken et al, 2022(Bouncken et al, , 2023. This shared identity can be seen as a distinctive feature of CRE initiatives, with this distinctiveness acting as a source of legitimacy (Taeuscher et al, 2018).…”

Impact of workplace fun in a co-working space on office workers' creativity

“…Membership-based “Co-working Spaces” (CWS) provide a new workspace for freelancers and remote employees, overcoming the isolation associated with home-based, remote and mobile work. CWS combine an office workspace with a social community space and enable collaboration, creativity and knowledge exchange (Bouncken et al ., 2022), develop interactive learning models (Bednář et al ., 2023) and offer opportunities to expand social and professional networks for users. As the co-working model evolves, CWS are being used not only by independent employees but also micro-enterprises or start-ups, as well as branches, divisions or temporary work teams of large organisations for a specific project.…”

Sustainable coworking: the member perspective

“…A previous study identified a lack of consensus on what sustainability in a coworking space entails (Oswald and Zhao, 2020). Regarding sustainability, the coworking literature has mainly focused on sharing economy (Bouncken and Reuschl, 2018), sustainable mobility (Lejoux et al , 2019), sustainable business models (Bouncken et al , 2023; Oswald and Zhao, 2020), sustainable identity (Bouncken et al , 2022) and certain factors that can make the coworking business more sustainable, such as renewable energy sources, waste management systems and eco-friendly building materials (Bouncken et al , 2023). Like these studies, most contemporary research on workplace sustainability is focused on top-level strategy, and by having this focus, sustainable workplace research has mostly neglected processes at the member level (Afsar and Umrani, 2019; Davis and Challenger, 2013; Lülfs and Hahn, 2014).…”

“…Coworking providers play the strategic part in creating a sustainable coworking space (Bouncken et al , 2020). A recent study shows that if a coworking space propagates sustainability logics in their business models, the coworking members are more likely to possess sustainability values (Bouncken et al , 2023). The same study mentions that sustainable coworking businesses do:…”