Organizational Spaces: Rematerializing the Workaday World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848446500 ISBN 13: 9781848446502

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

This insightful book poses interesting theoretical and methodological questions for the processes of spatial design and the treatment of workspaces in organizational settings of various kinds. The contributors expertly answer the need for practical field research on spatial settings and materiality in organizations of various sorts.

Organizational Spaces explores a wide range of interfaces between built spaces and organizational actors, including the ways the former can potentially affect and shape the behaviours and acts of employees at all levels, as well as clients, other visitors and onlookers. Using innovative interpretive methods, the book provides detailed empirical and theoretical analyses of field research that focus on the meanings that organizational spaces can communicate to multiple audiences.

Scholars and graduate students in the areas of organizational culture, cultural change and intervention in organizations, international business, design sciences, as well as in organizational studies more broadly, should not be without this important and highly original resource.

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Alfons van Marrewijk, Professor of Construction Cultures, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Adjunct Professor of Project Management, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway and Dvora Yanow, Guest Professor, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848446500
• ISBN 13: 9781848446502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Van Marrewijk Alfons, Yanow Dvora