The Social Economy of Coworking Spaces: A Focal Point Model of Coordination

Potts, Jason; Waters-Lynch, Julian

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2770874

Cited by 24 publications

(32 citation statements)

References 46 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…This paper draws on research in critical creative labour studies as this research field has widely addressed the challenges and complexities of a freelance work situation. Moreover, many freelancers working in coworking spaces belong to occupational groups within the culture and creative industries sectors (Spinuzzi 2012;IPPR 2016;Waters-Lynch and Potts 2016), or what Scott (2008) identified as the 'cognitive-cultural economy' of cities. However, not all freelancers who are working in co-working spaces are creative workers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets

Merkel

2018

Urban Studies

146

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets

Merkel

2018

Urban Studies

146

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The precariousness of many of the tenants and their very diverse backgrounds also seemed to make them prioritize their work at hand (e.g. Sara, Alex, Paula and Diana), similarly as in the study of Potts and Waters-Lynch (2016). However, encounters in SF can also be understood through an appreciation of and desire for proximity as demonstrated in the quotes above; an appreciation and recognition of other people in similar circumstances providing the possibility of engagement in encounters that can be realised later.…”

Section: Strawberry Fields -Co-working Over Coffee (Author 4)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Economy of Encounters? A critical study of affectual assemblages in coworking

Jakonen

Kivinen

Salovaara

et al. 2017

Scandinavian Journal of Management

105

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Coworking spaces have been established in great numbers around the globe over the past 10 years. Previous studies on coworking spaces argue that these spaces are designed to enable serendipitous encounters. Here we introduce the concept of an economy of encounters, arguing that both intended and unintended encounters have become a form of production in the knowledge-based new economy. This paper draws upon the critical analysis of three case studies of different coworking settings-two open coworking spaces and a corporate coworking office. Following Deleuze and Guattari, we see coworking spaces as affectual assemblages that create affects that push knowledge workers in flow and motion to enable the formation of new kinds of heterogeneous and constantly changing work communities, where serendipitous encounters become a force of production. We argue that this commodification of a social phenomenon, i.e. the intentional use of affectual assemblages of people, objects and ideas to create serendipitous opportunities, ignores the precariousness of contemporary work.

show abstract

“…Waters-Lynch and Potts [77] believe that the research on coworking spaces is disclosing differentiated…”

Section: Construction and Real Estatementioning

confidence: 99%

“…product niches in the urban office rental market. Waters-Lynch and Potts[77] provide a model considering coworking spaces as 'social economy Schelling points' within the evolving landscape of new spaces for urban production. According to this proposed model the coworking spaces entrepreneurially establish focal points for tacit coordination between niche actors who expect to find each other at such locations to cooperate on joint projects.According to Yan, Wang, Quan, Wu, and Zhao[78] urban sustainable development efficiency (USDE) explains how efficient an urban system is in meeting the human welfare and resources and the environmental input.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Business Models: A Review

Nosratabadi¹,

Mosavi²,

Shamshirband³

et al. 2019

Preprint

102

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

During the past two decades of the e-commerce growth the concept of business model has become increasingly popular. More recently, the research on this realm has grown rapidly with a diverse research activity covering a wide range of application areas. Considering the sustainable development goals the innovative business models have brought competitive advantage to improve the sustainability performance of organizations. The concept of sustainable business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, in economic, social, cultural or other contexts in a sustainable way. The process of sustainable business model construction forms an innovative part of business strategy. Different industries and businesses have utilized sustainable business models concept to satisfy their economic, environmental and social goals simultaneously. However, the success, popularity, and the progress of sustainable business models in different application domains are not clear. To explore this issue, this research provides a comprehensive review on sustainable business models literature in various application areas. Notable sustainable business models are identified and further classified in fifteen unique categories, and in every category the progress (either failure or success) has been reviewed and the research gaps are discussed. Taxonomy of the applications includes, innovation, management and marketing, entrepreneurship, energy, fashion, healthcare, agri-food, supply chain management, circular economy, developing countries, engineering, construction and real estate, mobility and transportation, and hospitality. The key contribution of this study is to provide an insight about the state of the art of sustainable business models in various application areas and the future research directions. This paper concludes that popularity and the success rate of sustainable business models in all application domains have been increased along with increasing use of advanced ICT technologies.

show abstract

The Social Economy of Coworking Spaces: A Focal Point Model of Coordination

Cited by 24 publications

References 46 publications

‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets

‘Freelance isn’t free.’ Co-working as a critical urban practice to cope with informality in creative labour markets

Towards an Economy of Encounters? A critical study of affectual assemblages in coworking

Sustainable Business Models: A Review

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About