Transformative Changes and Developments of the Coworking Model: A Narrative Review

Orel, Marko; Dvouletý, Ondřej

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“…Fast-forwarding to the nineteenth century, when similar collaborative workspaces flourished across France, seasoned craftsmen established and managed shared studios to support local communities of gifted artists. Orel and Dvouletý ( 2020 ) report that the primary tool for helping skilled individuals has been the everyday use of shared physical spaces. Senior artists have taken on the role of mediators to accelerate informal interactions, and nurtured the development of supportive networks, transforming these studios into early creative hubs.…”

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“…While the industry has witnessed these rapid changes, academia has undertaken very little research to understand human talent's role in coworking spaces. As coworking environments have emerged in response to the global economic transformation over the past two decades (Orel and Dvouletý 2020 ), two versions of the flexible office arrangement have begun to appear (Tremblay and Scaillerez 2020 ). Studies indicate that the generally smaller, independently owned coworking spaces tend to focus on developing internal networks, creating a supportive community of peers who shape the identity of the environment together (Bouncken et al 2018 ; Mayerhoffer 2020 ).…”

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Coworking spaces as talent hubs: The imperative for community building in the changing context of new work

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Coworking spaces are flexible and shared work environments that make a significant effort to connect users with supportive networks that commonly result in efficient work outputs, a high level of collaboration and knowledge transfer. Recent years have seen swift growth and popularisation of the coworking model, making these spaces an integral part of local entrepreneurial ecosystems and transforming them into the localised pools of specialised talent. However, little research has been conducted to understand the role of human talent in coworking spaces, indicating a knowledge gap in human resource management and the role of contemporary coworking environments. Therefore, the purpose of the following paper is to contextualize coworking spaces as (local) talent hubs by investigating how they tend to build their identity on their userbase. The manuscript explores the managerial practices and mediation techniques by presenting empirical evidence and subsequent analysis of talent attraction and retention mechanisms commonly used in coworking environments. The study shows that by facilitating interaction and collaboration between users, coworking spaces offer support throughout the business life cycle and identify themselves as local accelerators of entrepreneurship and talent development within their local environments. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11846-021-00487-4.

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“…Based on a systematic review of the literature, some common features of CSs and corresponding proximity dimensions which are enhanced by each feature were distinguished (Table 1). Spinuzzi, 2012;Fuzi, 2015;Gandini, 2015;Gerdenitsch et al ., 2015;Merkel, 2015;Parrino, 2015;Ivaldi et al ., 2018;Orel and Kubátová, 2019 Social proximity Capdevila, 2015;Gandini, 2015;Parrino, 2015;Bouncken et al ., 2018;Weijs-Perrée et al ., 2019…”

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“…Shared common values and norms Moriset, 2014;Brown, 2017 Institutional proximity Source: own work. Some authors emphasise the fact that CSs should be membership-based offices (Orel and Kubátová, 2019;Howell and Bingham, 2019). Membership of a social or professional community is not, however, a distinct feature of all CSs.…”

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Studies of Proximity in Coworking Spaces: the Basic Conceptual Challenges

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2020

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The article aims to identify main research challenges in studying coworking spaces (CSs) within the field of economic geography. It combines the perspective of proximity economics with the growing body of papers about spatial aspects of the operations of CSs and their role in stimulating collaboration. Based on a review of literature, the author identified the characteristic features of CSs and the corresponding proximity dimensions. He further assessed the significance of various dimensions of proximity in CSs. The article reveals how various proximities differ between CSs. It also distinguished the research strands referring to the spatialities of CSs. Next, it discusses the conceptualisation and operationalisation of proximity. Then, it applied it in the micro-scalar context of coworking spaces. The paper sheds a new light on ‘real CSs’ as physical spaces of strong institutional, cognitive and social proximities. It has been argued that even if organisational proximity in CSs is taken for granted, there is a heterogeneity amongst their users.

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“…One of the consequences is the continuing rise of coworking spaces. While the contemporary versions of these collaborative and shared workplaces started to gain visibility around the year 2005 in San Francisco (The Spiral Muse) and London (The Hub) (Merkel 2015 ; Waters-Lynch et al 2016 ), their existence can be tracked to the mid-90 s (Orel and Dvouletý 2020 ). Nonetheless, Deskmag’s yearly global coworking survey (Deskmag 2018 ) showed that 29% of all coworking spaces available in 2018 were opened over the last year.…”

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User preferences for coworking spaces; a comparison between the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic

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Coworking spaces have become a central component of new work environments, with large international chains. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether user preferences for the physical workspace design are consistent across countries, which the uniformity of such chains seems to suggest. A comparison between the user preferences of coworking spaces between the Netherlands (n = 219), Germany (n = 98) and the Czech Republic (n = 79) is performed using a mixed multinomial logic model for each country. Besides statistical utility of attributes, also motivations for working in coworking spaces are analysed. The findings show that there are some consistencies in preferences across countries. Typical real estate characteristics like accessibility and contract options came forward to be the most important attributes in choosing which coworking space to work at in all three countries. However, significant differences in the desired quality levels of specifically these attributes were found between the countries as well, and only the less important attributes showed similar preferences internationally. This suggests that identical world-wide implementations of the same concept, might serve multi-nationals but possibly will not attract local users. The identified differences in preferences can help to position more specific, dedicated coworking spaces within local markets.

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Transformative Changes and Developments of the Coworking Model: A Narrative Review

Cited by 30 publications

References 82 publications

Coworking spaces as talent hubs: The imperative for community building in the changing context of new work

Coworking spaces as talent hubs: The imperative for community building in the changing context of new work

Studies of Proximity in Coworking Spaces: the Basic Conceptual Challenges

User preferences for coworking spaces; a comparison between the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic

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