Where do new organizations come from, and how they persist? Based on an ethnographic study of two creative hubs in Amsterdam, which independent workers rented studio space, we show space plays a role constituting making them last. Focusing challenging moments the development these hubs, propose that understood as material assemblage, participates providing endurance to organizing practices. It does so because practice reflexively account for each other. In other words, may constrain or...

We aim to shed light on the deep mechanisms that keep individual entrepreneurs in creative and cultural industries motivated this insecure fast‐paced environment. collect data through a survey of working Dutch (CCI) examine what motivates these professionals work an environment characterized by tough competition. Specifically, we analyse our respondents' self‐perceived (creative entrepreneurial) competences needs (for autonomy relatedness) relation their motivation execute work. suggest...

Work and organization increasingly happen in transit. People meet coffee shops write emails from their phones while waiting for buses or sitting outdoors on benches. Business meetings are held airports projects run laptops during travel. We take the street as a place where organizing transit accumulates. While studies field has been catching up with various related phenomena, including co-working, digital nomadism, mobile online communities, we argue that it overlooked what historically most...

Purpose For more than 20 years, research on the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) has drawn interactional data to offer novel explanations how organizational phenomena emerge, change, and stabilize in through communication. Accordingly, idea “never leaving t erra firma interaction” become a tenet CCO research, guiding scholars’ theorizing, collection, analysis. The aim this paper is reflect enrich tenet. Design/methodology/approach First, traces history concept terra...

Organization and management are the perpetual, perpetually fraught resisted, ordering of sense experience. However, banning senses into outside thought, organizational analysis, was – to a large degree still is default mostly implicit unquestioned mode thinking studying organization management. Introducing special issue on ‘The Senses in Management Research Education’, this essay historicizes contextualizes neglect senses, dwells upon possible reasons for keeping sensory at bay discusses...

Based on thirty interviews conducted in ten coworking spaces Amsterdam and Paris, we ask whether how members of engage identity play, what mechanisms related to space seem enable such play. We identify four types spatial hosts claim create or in, show these relate experimentation with professional identity. In so doing, highlight possible material aspects This paper contributes the literature play by drawing attention physicality constitutive nature holding necessary for research their effects.

Coworking is a rapidly growing worldwide phenomenon. While the coworking movement emphasises equality and emancipation, there little known about extent to which spaces as new forms of organising live up this ideal. This study examines inequality in Netherlands, employing Acker’s framework regimes. The findings highlight coworking-specific components regimes, particular stereotyped assumptions regarding ‘ideal members’ that establish bases inequality, practices produce (e.g. through...

This paper highlights the role of materiality in legitimising art organising as occurs at festivals and performances. Through ethnographic fieldwork pertaining to events projects, we documented how legitimacy is accomplished through very performance art. We observed that artistic practices materialise norms by which they are assessed demarcate a normative space their own. Our contributes research on showing it takes place connection with societal also disconnection fosters such distinct...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to nuance the idea natural access proposed by Mats Alvesson in his description at-home ethnography, and offer a performative view Alvesson’s suggestion that, ethnographer must work with “the processual nature researcher’s self.” Design/methodology/approach author offers reflection on several years ethnographic research conducted, which some parts were done living community was part. Being literally at home, as well being very familiar other settings...

This article argues that while creative spaces are believed to instigate production, their strongest value is in producing new possibilities for self-organizing. By zooming on short snapshots of resistance against gentrification Amsterdam, I investigate whether small-scale and grass-roots forms self-organizing between independent workers the industries can be understood as examples autonomist notions ‘the common’ multitude’. placing observations workers’ practices alongside theory, suggest...

Research in management and organization may only gain by being inspired from arts, culture humanities order to rethink practices but also nourish its own perspectives. Life organizations is artificially separate ordinary life : all of mundane objects are thus conducive astonishment, inspiration, even problematization. The unplugged subsection “voices” gives the opportunity academics non-academics deliver an interpretation about object cultural or artistic world. Interpreted...

This research article examines the intersection of two current topics: ongoing flexibilisation creative work on one hand, and emergence urban temporary working landscapes other. Their interrelatedness is inspected through a case study particular hub, former Volkskrant building in Amsterdam, analysing its transformation into ‘creative’ hotel. Based intensive qualitative fieldwork 2012 2013, we argue that importance such hubs lies beyond fact these places provide professionals industries with...

We aim to shed light on the deep mechanisms that may keep individual entrepreneurs in creative and cultural industries motivated an insecure fast-paced environment. Adopting explorative research design, we collected data through a survey among working Dutch industries. examine what motivates these, mostly self-employed, professionals work environment characterized by tough competition high insecurity. Specifically, analyze our respondents’ self-perceived (creative entrepreneurial)...