Coworking is characterized by different people sharing a workspace to benefit from the inspiring working atmosphere. Even before Covid-19, many positive effects and dynamics were not fully exploited by their users. One reason is a lack of trust among the users that leads to social isolation, although a coworking space should increase knowledge and idea exchange. As most people in coworking spaces use information and communication technologies (ICT) for their collaboration with their clients or employers, we examined if and how ICT can be used to support the positive effects and dynamics of coworking spaces. For this, we conducted eight interviews with freelancers and entrepreneurs who have already worked in coworking spaces in order to identify requirements for a complementary virtual coworking platform. We found that social proximity, motivation and knowledge sharing could be increased by such a platform. Based on the process virtualization theory, we derived six design principles.
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Co-working spaces (CWSs) have emerged as a distinctive phenomenon in the sharing economy. They are collaborative environments that feed innovation and creativity under the slogan “working alone together”. While policy makers and scholars were optimistic about their role in promoting entrepreneurial endeavours and fostering growth, the spread of the COVID-19 across the world has drastically changed the way we work, communicate, and navigate daily life. This study offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on CWSs. To do so, a bibliometric analysis is proposed, combining the use of traditional bibliometric tools with science mapping techniques. A total of 118 documents are reviewed and the results are presented at two different levels: (1) descriptive analysis of the status of the research on a CWS and (2) its conceptual structure (topics and trends). The study concludes with some directions for future research. Specifically, based on the recurrent topics discussed up to.
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Coworking spaces are flexible and shared work environments that make a significant effort to connect users with supportive networks that commonly result in efficient work outputs, a high level of collaboration and knowledge transfer. Recent years have seen swift growth and popularisation of the coworking model, making these spaces an integral part of local entrepreneurial ecosystems and transforming them into the localised pools of specialised talent. However, little research has been conducted to understand the role of human talent in coworking spaces, indicating a knowledge gap in human resource management and the role of contemporary coworking environments. Therefore, the purpose of the following paper is to contextualize coworking spaces as (local) talent hubs by investigating how they tend to build their identity on their userbase. The manuscript explores the managerial practices and mediation techniques by presenting empirical evidence and subsequent analysis of talent attract.
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We examine how a collective workspace hosting entrepreneurs may influence their everyday life and sustain the development of their ventures. We use the conception of space as a social process introduced by Hall (1966) and we compare and contrast the perspective of entrepreneurs who located their business in a colle ctive workspace with that of the designers of the space. We conducted a qualitative and induct ive case analysis of a coworking space for social entrepreneurs in Paris. We propose a model d ifferentiating three components: physical place, mode of operation, hosted population, and sh ow how these components jointly contribute to the development of collaborative rela tions and facilitate access to external resources for the companies located in this type of workspace.
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2020, The Business and Management Review
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Coworking spaces are a rapidly growing feature of modern cities, and increasingly popular with freelancers, knowledge workers, start-up communities, and others engaged in non-standard creative urban work. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a large case study of coworking spaces in Australia, we develop an economic model of an important aspect of coworking spaces, and the economic logic of their existence, in which a coworking space is a Schelling point. This argues that the main margin of value a coworking space provides is not price competition with serviced offices, or a more pleasant environment than working at home, but as a focal (Schelling) point for finding people, ideas and other resources when you lack the information necessary for coordination. Drawing on ethnographic research, we test some specific predictions the model makes about the organizational and institutional form of successful coworking spaces (strong screening mechanisms, specific technology or problem themed, internal institutions geared to search-and-match). Finally we raise questions about the optimal business model for a Schelling point coworking space.
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2012, Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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2021, European Spatial Research and Policy
Coworking spaces emerged in the mid-2000s as collaborative workplaces that actively supported teleworkers and self-employed knowledge workers who shared various (work) environments to interlace themselves in supportive networks, tackle isolation, positively influence well-being, and collaboratively participate in knowledge-sharing activities. However, with the swift popularisation of the coworking model by 2020, newly established flexible office spaces have begun to refer to themselves as community-based workplaces even though they lacked the capacity to support their users’ interactions and collaborative work. Therefore, the purpose of the paper is to explore how coworking spaces have transformed from community-based environments to a flexible place of work where establishing a collaborative community is not an organisational priority. The following exploratory research investigates a sample of 13 coworking spaces in Prague, the Czech Republic, and considers their capacity for supp.
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2019, in the collective volume Creative Hubs in Question, eds Gill Rosalind, Virani Tarek and Pratt Andy
The paper conceptually demarcates the entrepreneurial-led coworking spaces from the community-led ones that are bottom-up initiatives of creative professionals, and attempts to provide insights for some basic characteristics of the latter, such as the reasons that force creative professionals to choose that coworking format. Moreover, the paper sheds light upon the different layers of organization of coworking spaces with regard to the professional and social relationships that coworkers develop and concludes that community-led coworking spaces can be regarded as mutual survival platforms, where the degree of cooperation among the coworkers can range from simple co-location to work collectivization.
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Technology Innovation Management Review
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This article discusses the relatively young phenomenon of coworking and its value propositions from a company’s perspective. It aims at giving an overview of the current research on coworking with a special focus on coworking as “third places” for mature organisations. In contrast to startups, freelancers and micro businesses, which use coworking spaces as their primary work location, traditional organisations dispose of a corporate office and use coworking only as an alternative work scenario for a variety of purposes. Based on a cross-disciplinary literature review, an evaluation of the current state of research on coworking from a company’s perspective is given. Due to the absence of extensive research on companies as beneficiaries of coworking spaces, no existing classification or analyses of value propositions could be identified. However, the authors propose a research landscape of coworking from a company’s perspective with a focus on the question, of how coworking correlates.
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2019, Foresight and STI Governance
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2020, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
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The number of coworking spaces and the number of people who choose to work in them has exploded over the past few years, with numbers expected to double every year. What is fuelling this growth and where is the demand for coworking coming from? We tried to address this question by looking at the specific needs of the rising creative class, identifying their urgent need for uninhibited sharing of information, knowledge, ideas and also material resources. We argue that coworking spaces are favoured by the creative class, because they offer a community of work which facilitates the culture of sharing. To illustrate what it takes to establish such a community of work, we present a case study of the Creative Centre Poligon which suggests that community building is a multi-step process that needs careful management and plenty of time. We conclude that policy makers should not focus on building coworking spaces in order to combat youth unemployment but should rather support existing initiatives that have been built or are in the process of building up vibrant communities of work.
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2019, 11th International Congress on Contemporary Social Studies
As one of the most notable workplace trends of the last decade, the coworking business model of leasing offices have been exponentially growing and refer that firms and freelancers abandon their permanent office willingness, and helps to share knowledge and information independently among individuals. In this regard, coworking allows individuals from various backgrounds to work unitedly in a common space. In other words, coworking spaces represent an office atmosphere that has a heterogeneous group of worker or freelancer via creating networking opportunities by social interaction, and come up with myriad advantages such as cutting costs, gaining flexibility and new perspectives. From this point of view, the present study aims at examining the systematic literature review of the rising phenomenon of coworking spaces as a new business trend, and exploring and evaluating the evolution process of coworking spaces in detail by contributing the related literature and practices in the business environment. In this frame, it has been foreseen that coworking spaces as innovative business models will continue to be on the radar of entrepreneurs worldwide in the future.
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2021, European Planning Studies
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2020, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
Coworking practices have proliferated around the world being embraced not only by remote workers, start-up employees and freelancers but also by larger organizations. Coworking spaces in public libraries, business districts and other urban spaces, herald profound changes for the way workspaces are used in cities. The study takes an integrative approach to investigate the economic and socio-cultural implications of coworking trend for smart cities, their ecosystems and the use of urban public spaces. The study examines these issues by studying motivations and challenges of providers and users of coworking spaces. Thirty coworking spaces in urban areas across Australia were studied and thirty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with both providers and users of the coworking spaces. The findings suggest that coworking spaces play an important role in building communities and developing social and cultural ties. From urban space and environmental perspectives, coworking spaces are likely to contribute to urban mobility and sustainability. From an urban economic perspective, coworking spaces provide a collaborative environment and often a breeding ground for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is one of the most salient themes in the coworking spaces as found in this study. These findings will inform urban policy makers and help them better understand and tap into the source of civic entrepreneurship derived from coworking spaces.
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Inter-organizational collaboration plays a crucial role in the innovative capacity and competitiveness of firms. This article discusses the collaboration practices in localized spaces of collaboration through a study of different coworking spaces in Barcelona, following an inductive and qualitative approach. Three types of collaboration approaches are identified: 1) cost-related collaboration, where agents are motivated in reducing their operational costs and the transaction costs related to collaboration; 2) resource-based collaboration, where agents collaborate to learn or complement their resources by integrating external resources and sources of knowledge; and 3) relational collaboration, where actors engage in intense synergistic collaborative practices. The results show that each coworking space tends to focus on one kind of collaboration type that is influenced in different ways by the coworking space managers, The article contributes to the research on inter-organizational collaboration by explaining how the physical environment and the action of the space and community managers can facilitate the implementation of different collaborative practices among colocated economic agents.
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2018, Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship
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2020, European Spatial Research and Policy
Since the mid-2000s, the rising phenomenon of coworking spaces (CSs) has provided a flexible and mainly affordable solution for freelancers, entrepreneurs, small firms and start-ups, which may had experienced the issues of isolation when working from home, to work in a shared workplace, interact, socialize and share knowledge. This article explores the phenomenon of CSs within the theoretical framework of proximity measures a là Boschma (2005) – cognitive, organisational, social and institutional – that underpin the aspects of innovation, interaction and knowledge exchange. Though some studies on CSs have indirectly studied the different aspects of proximity, only a few of them focused on the importance of proximity measures at the workspace. With the aim to fill the gap in the literature, an empirical study was applied to Italy with 549 active CSs in 2018. The data was collected through an on-line questionnaire, addressed to a sample of 326 coworkers, focusing mainly on the set of .
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While sharing is a longstanding form of exchange, new forms of sharing have emerged. What is innovative about today’s sharing is that it is a market form in which strangers—rather than kin and communities—exchange goods and services. The contemporary sharing economy creates new ways of provisioning goods and services and opportunities for what we have called connected consumption, relying on peer-to-peer relationships rather than existing market actors to mediate exchanges. In this chapter, we suggest that participation in the sharing economy is motivated by economic and ecological concerns, as well as a desire to increase social connections. However, we question how effective the sharing economy has been in meeting these goals. Further, we suggest the importance of digital technologies, facilitating the emergence of “circuits of commerce,” in overcoming the trust and reputational barriers that once restricted sharing to kin and community. Finally, we suggest that the market orientation and organization of sharing economy platforms—as well as whether exchanges are monetized or nonmonetized—are critical characteristics shaping these platforms and their potential to provide truly alternative economic arrangements.
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A brief overview of coworking In recent decades, globalisation and technological changes have coincided with and enabled important transformations in the labour market. These transformations have given rise to new forms of production/con-sumption, including the so-called collaborative economy (Benkler, 2006;). These emphasise the combined dimensions of labour and are based on simultaneous, multidi-rectional, and reciprocal work, as opposed to forms that take place in organisations with an established division of labour, demarcated communities , and formal and informal sets of rules. Coworking has been emerging in the current social and organisational scenario as one of the relevant manifestations of such unfolding transformations. The first coworking space appeared in 2005 in San Francisco. At that time, the
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2020, Інвестиції: практика та досвід
The directions of development of small and mediumsized enterprises in the framework of the exchange economy and the circular economy, as well as issues related to promising areas of entrepreneurial innovation and the growth of digital business are considered. It is shown that the key sectors for innovation are food industry, packaging, water supply and clothing production. Changes in modern business models, which are the switching of the representatives of small and mediumsized businesses to the implementation of the main postulates of the circular economy, namely, to reduce consumption and reuse of natural resources, are studied. Modern market strategies and small and mediumsized enterprises trying to implement them are analyzed. It was concluded that the creation of innovative enterprises within the sharing economy not only contributes to the improvement of the economic situation, but also creates additional social effects. It is shown that the main focus of retailers is loyalty and customer retention, rather than selling more units of the product. The strengthening of the transformation of supply chains in the areas of cooperation between trading platforms and large consumer goods firms, integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and integration of social networks are emphasized. It is revealed that startups and newcomers to the market place goal and influence at the centre of their brands, because the impact brands are growing much faster than others. It is shown that the values necessary for creating the image of a "virtuous brand" are "careful knowledge", "caring habits" and "caring imagination". It was concluded that along with increasing social responsibility and greening of business, business activity within the sharing economy has unexpectedly developed rapidly. It was emphasized that the use of the sharing economy has contributed to solving the problems of rational use of natural resources, effective employment and current problems of residents of large cities. Special attention is paid to fundamental changes in the landscape for entrepreneurs, which are manifested in the creation of effective ways of production while reducing internal costs, greater opportunities to enter the market, increased competition, the transition of power from large corporations to innovative enterprises.
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In larger cities, we see a rising trend of more people working outside their traditional offices, and engaging in a practice called co-working by sharing office space. The public policy makers of innovation-driven economies, on the other hand, have been availing co-working spaces and related support to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Despite the growing significance of this area, there has been limited research on the link between coworking and innovation among young firms. This research examines the relationship between coworking space and innovation, particularly business model innovation (BMI) for sustainable performance. Based on an empirical study of 258 young tenant firms operating in 13 coworking spaces in Singapore, we establish that the space creativity of coworking spaces is positively related to the BMI outcome of tenant firms. Tenant firms’ opportunity recognition and exploitation (ORE) process positively mediates the relationship between the space creativity of.
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2020, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
Abstract. Coworking practices have proliferated around the world being embraced not only by remote workers, start-up employees and freelancers but also by larger organizations. Coworking spaces in public libraries, business districts and other urban spaces, herald profound changes for the way workspaces are used in cities. The study takes an integrative approach to investigate the economic and socio-cultural implications of coworking trend for smart cities, their ecosystems and the use of urban public spaces. The study examines these issues by studying motivations and challenges of providers and users of coworking spaces. Thirty coworking spaces in urban areas across Australia were studied and thirty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with both providers and users of the coworking spaces. The findings suggest that coworking spaces play an important role in building communities and developing social and cultural ties. From urban space and environmental perspectives, coworking spaces are likely to contribute to urban mobility and sustainability. From an urban economic perspective, coworking spaces provide a collaborative environment and often a breeding ground for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is one of the most salient themes in the coworking spaces as found in this study. These findings will inform urban policy makers and help them better understand and tap into the source of civic entrepreneurship derived from coworking spaces. coworking spaces; smart cities; ecosystems; entrepreneurship; urban planning; public spaces
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2020, International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing
Co-working spaces are shared office environments for independent professionals. Such spaces have been increasing rapidly throughout the world, and provide, in addition to basic business infrastructure, the opportunity for social interaction. In the last couple of years, increasing numbers of independent professionals have opted to work in co-working spaces. This emerging office type appears to provide a resourceful environment for this particular target group because it provides opportunities for social support in addition to flexible business infrastructure. To date, only a few scientific investigations of co-working spaces have been conducted. The purpose of the study is to understand the concept of the co-working space and analyse the reason why people prefer and use co working space. The findings highlight the importance of coworkers as a source of social interaction and Networking.
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