It has become fashionable to claim that organizations have dissolved into thin air. Despite such overstated claims, space and place continue to be fundamental to organization, management and work. Employees continue to jealously guard their workstations. Office parks continue to spring up around the world. Corporations channel vast sums into 'signature buildings'. Billions of people leave home every morning to travel to factories and offices. Consumers lurk in shopping malls. All this points to the fact that one of the most basic experiences we have of organization is the various spaces in which it takes place.
Work Spaces
Emma Surman (University of Warwick) Out of sight and beyond
control? A spatial analysis of supervisory responses to a remote
workforce.
Patrizia Zanoni (K. U. Leuven) Diversity Management as Identity Regulation in the Post-Fordist Productive Space
Peter Clark (Queen Mary, University of London) and Scott Taylor (University of Birmingham) Timed space and the orchestration of work and home in the UK and USA
Spaces of Today
Christina Volkmann (University of Wales, Swansea) Invasive Spaces: Libraries and Labyrinths
Steffen Böhm (University of Essex) Transparent Organization: Architectures of Ideology and Politics
Tor Hernes (Norwegian School of Management) Spaces as process: Developing a recursive perspective of organizational space
Spaces of Tomorrow
Damian P. O'Doherty (University of Manchester) The Blur Sensation: Shadow of the Future
Jeremy Myerson (Royal College of Art) The 21st Century Office: a story of narrative, nodes, neighbours and nomads
Gibson Burrell and Karen Dale (University of Leicester) Building Better Worlds