dc.contributor.author | De Paoli, Donatella | |
dc.contributor.author | Sauer, Erika | |
dc.contributor.author | Ropo, Arja | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-07T08:57:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-07T08:57:50Z | |
dc.date.created | 2018-01-16T16:26:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Management & Organization. 2017, 1-22. | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 1833-3672 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2489043 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines office design as a spatial context of organizations. Organizations increasingly invest in designing workspaces to support employee creativity, foster company innovation and communicate a positive company image. This paper takes a critical view of this ‘hype’ by describing and analysing images of the headquarters of allegedly ‘creative workspaces’ published on the Internet across a broad range of industries and corporations. Our analysis shows how their design follows standardized or stereotypical approaches to nurturing creativity: playfully or artistically designed open spaces, environments reminiscent of home, sports and play, nature, past/future technologies, or culturally aligned symbols. We discern underlying connections between office spaces and creativity, suggesting that creativity flourishes in happy, relaxed and playful communities within close-knit teams. We then identify three contradictions in relation to the existing literature on creativity and workspaces: individually versus collectively produced creativity; professionally designed workspaces versus workspaces created through participation; and planned versus emerging creativity. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Cambridge | nb_NO |
dc.title | The spatial context of organizations: Critique of creative workspaces’ | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 1-22 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | Journal of Management & Organization | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/jmo.2017.46 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1544555 | |
dc.description.localcode | 1, forfatterversjon | nb_NO |
cristin.unitcode | 158,4,0,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for ledelse og organisasjon | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |