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dc.contributor.authorDe Paoli, Donatella
dc.contributor.authorSauer, Erika
dc.contributor.authorRopo, Arja
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-07T08:57:50Z
dc.date.available2018-03-07T08:57:50Z
dc.date.created2018-01-16T16:26:32Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Management & Organization. 2017, 1-22.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1833-3672
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2489043
dc.description.abstractThis 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.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherCambridgenb_NO
dc.titleThe spatial context of organizations: Critique of creative workspaces’nb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber1-22nb_NO
dc.source.journalJournal of Management & Organizationnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/jmo.2017.46
dc.identifier.cristin1544555
dc.description.localcode1, forfatterversjonnb_NO
cristin.unitcode158,4,0,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for ledelse og organisasjon
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