The social economy of coworking spaces: a focal point model of coordination

Waters-Lynch, Julian; Potts, Jason

doi:10.1080/00346764.2016.1269938

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“…Coworking spaces also result from the concept of sharing economy. Waters-Lynch and Potts [83] believe that the research on coworking spaces is disclosing differentiated product niches in the urban office rental market. Waters-Lynch and Potts [83] provide a model considering coworking spaces as 'social economy Schelling points' within the evolving landscape of new spaces for urban production.…”

Section: Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Waters-Lynch and Potts [83] believe that the research on coworking spaces is disclosing differentiated product niches in the urban office rental market. Waters-Lynch and Potts [83] 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.…”

Section: Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Business Models: A Review

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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 a competitive advantage to improve the sustainability performance of organizations. The concept of the 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 of sustainable business models literature in various application areas. Notable sustainable business models are identified and further classified in fourteen 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 into the state of the art of sustainable business models in various application areas and 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 the increasing use of advanced technologies.

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“…In comparison, Reuschl and Bouncken () theorize labs as meta‐organizations for entrepreneurship that combine the advantages of independent, autonomous work with the advantages of traditional organizations that provide work places, social interaction spaces, and office services. Waters‐Lynch and Potts () also argue that labs help to solve coordination problems between coworkers facing uncertainties about, e.g., who it might be useful to connect with.…”

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“…At the microlevel, the notion of third places is repeatedly employed to relate to the multiplicity of practices observed in Open Creative Labs, ranging from working and learning to experimenting and playing (Waters-Lynch & Potts, 2017). Others conceptualize labs as third spaces that fuse the virtual dimensions of work with real spaces (Olma, 2012, p. 30), effectively contradicting the original sense of third places as introduced by Ray Oldenburg (Oldenburg, 1997;Oldenburg & Brissett, 1982) who theorizes third places as easily accessible places for social relations and unexpected encounters outside work and home.…”

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In the making: Open Creative Labs as an emerging topic in economic geography?

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2019

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In the past 15 years, we have witnessed an upsurge of collaborative spaces providing an arena for individual and collective creativity, (co)creating craft‐based products, urban manufacturing, and experimentation with business or creative ideas using innovative technologies such as 3D printing or CNC milling machines. The discourses on spaces such as coworking, hacker‐ or makerspaces, accelerators, Fab Labs, and open workshops promise new communities, more innovation, and a transformation of work. This has called for interdisciplinary scholarly attention, primarily from organization and management studies, sociology, and entrepreneurship studies. However, little attention has so far been paid to this development from the perspective of geography. This paper employs Open Creative Labs as an umbrella term for the diversity of spaces and aims at, first, providing an overview of recent interdisciplinary perspectives on the functions of labs in coordinating creativity and entrepreneurship, as well as the motivations of users to utilize these spaces for their projects, and, second, offers an approach to a multiscalar spatial conceptualizations of labs. The paper concludes by exploring policy implications that may benefit from an economic‐geography perspective.

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“…Appearing to substantiate the "celebratory framework" that largely characterizes how coworking spaces are perceived in the mainstream (Gandini, 2015:193), scholarly research have explored the capacity of these spaces to stimulate innovations from the ground up (Wang and Loo, 2017), impact urban environments (Armondi and Di Vita, 2017;Mariotti et al, 2017), foster serendipitous and productive encounters among independent professionals and entrepreneurs (Moriset, 2013), and serve as sites for support for independent workers through the facilitation of knowledge transfer, collaborative problem solving, and companionship (Mariotti et al, 2017;Gerdenitsch et al, 2015;Spinuzzi, 2012;Waters-Lynch and Potts, 2017). Some researchers have also begun to assess the potential of coworking spaces to cultivate "progressive forms of work relations and collective political action" (Merkel, 2018:15;de Peuter et al, 2017).…”

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Coworking Spaces in the Global South: Local Articulations and Imaginaries

Tintiangko¹,

Soriano²

2019

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Building on scholarly explorations on the nuances of labor conditions in emerging knowledge economies in the Global South and the glocalization of the digital labor market, this paper examines how coworking spaces in Philippines are designed and organized. In particular, we explore the role that these alternative workspaces take in addressing the unique needs of local digital platform workers or online freelancers. The Philippines ranks third, after the US and India, among the countries with the greatest number of online freelancers. Drawing from a multisited ethnography of coworking spaces in Metro Manila including interviews with coworking space managers as well as Filipino online freelancers, the paper explores how the latter perceive the role and experience the value of coworking spaces. Echoing Oreglia and Ling's notion of "digital imagination," we find that digital workers sustain a unique sense of "aspirational belonging" to coworking spaces which we describe as a state of willingness to maintain a positive perception of these spaces without any certainty of realizing its promised benefits. We also argue that the very same qualities that render coworking spaces aspirational for online Filipino freelancer function to regulate a degree of in/exclusivity of urban spaces.

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The social economy of coworking spaces: a focal point model of coordination

Cited by 102 publications

References 39 publications

Sustainable Business Models: A Review

Sustainable Business Models: A Review

In the making: Open Creative Labs as an emerging topic in economic geography?

Coworking Spaces in the Global South: Local Articulations and Imaginaries

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