Space and Organizing

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Space and Organizing

On Spatial Agencing

9781800881556 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Gustavo Guzman, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith University, Australia, Andreas Diedrich, Associate Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Franck Cochoy, Professor of Sociology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and Senior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France, France
Publication Date: 2023 ISBN: 978 1 80088 155 6 Extent: 198 pp
This timely book explores how space emerges as people attempt to organize and reorganize their everyday activities. From the workplace to the internet, geographical districts to international development projects, it offers new insights on how created spaces enable further activities as the organizing process evolves.

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This timely book explores how space emerges as people attempt to organize and reorganize their everyday activities. From the workplace to the internet, geographical districts to international development projects, it offers new insights on how created spaces enable further activities as the organizing process evolves.

Expert contributors employ a poststructuralist perspective to look at the importance of agencing for understanding organizing within and among multifarious spaces. In turn this provides a means of explaining how organizing unfolds through combinations of spatio-material and agential practices. Extending this research by highlighting the agential dynamics of organizing in relation to space, this book unpacks the concept of agencing, before considering how relational approaches to space have influenced the idea of spatial agencing. Connecting the work of Michel Callon and Franck Cochoy, Space and Organizing joins a forward-thinking and ever-expanding body of research. As space and society are the result of diverse ongoing activities that enable further organizing to take place, the book concludes that we should abandon the idea of a given space that people inhabit and transform.

This book offers a meaningful avenue to rethink how we interact with nature, distribute our activities, and organize our practices. Aimed at business and management researchers, PhD candidates and postgraduate students with a particular interest in organization studies and organizational behaviour, this book offers ways to engage with more positive routes of spatial agencing.
Critical Acclaim
‘One of the greatest challenges of our time is to get rid of the conception of space as a given passive décor. As this book brilliantly demonstrates, the notion of spatial agencing provides powerful tools to explore the joint formation of space, time and subjectivities and to understand how globalization means integration as well as fragmentation.’
– Michel Callon, École des mines de Paris, France
Contributors
Contributors include: Christian Berndt, Marc Boeckler, Mark Christensen, Franck Cochoy, Lucia Crevani, Barbara Czarniawska, Andreas Diedrich, Karolina J. Dudek, Anna Grzelec, Gustavo Guzman, Bernward Joerges, Simon Larsson, Claudia Manca, Magdalena Petersson McIntyre, Airi Rovio-Johansson, Peter Skærbæk, Kjell Tryggestad
Contents
Contents:

1 Introduction: shifting perspectives on the organizing
properties of space 1
Andreas Diedrich, Gustavo Guzman and Franck Cochoy
2 Spatial agencing, privilege and new ways of working 16
Lucia Crevani and Claudia Manca
3 Messy space = creative space: boundary work in
organizational creativity 31
Anna Grzelec
4 Constructing the workplace: the agency of space, human
and non-human agencements 47
Karolina J. Dudek
5 Agencing influencer femininity through cyberspatial relations 61
Magdalena Petersson McIntyre
6 Between skills development and rural development:
agencing a Swedish training centre for furniture
manufacturing in South Africa 75
Andreas Diedrich and Airi Rovio-Johansson
7 The role of space and aesthetics in directing and
reinforcing human agency: organizing space in
a Protestant mission station in colonial Congo 89
Simon Larsson
8 Economics performativity and its consequences for
accounting and organizational spaces: the case of public
sector reforms 104
Peter Skærbæk, Kjell Tryggestad and Mark Christensen
9 Spatial agencing, geographies of marketisation and the
multiple spaces of the global economy 121
Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler
10 Robot-like rockets as “double agents” in outer space 135
Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges
11 Epilogue: a reflexive experiment of/on spatial agencing 151
Franck Cochoy
Bibliography 169

Index 186
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