RT Journal Article
T1 Seeking Organizational Geographies: A multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing
A1 Vandeventer, James Scott
A1 Lloveras Gutierrez, Javier
A1 Warnaby, Gary
K1 5399 Otras Especialidades económicas
AB In the context of debates about organizational space, this paper undertakes a multidimensional spatial analysis of everyday organizing. Drawing on an extensive ethnographic study of a housing estate, we use the territory, place, scale, network framework to reveal processes of everyday spatial production that occur through territorial, place-based, scalar and networked organizing. Foregrounding the interplay of these dimensions, we identify four resulting tensions at work in everyday organizing: conflict and resistance, boundaries and (un)boundedness, stasis and movement and alterity and diversity. We propose that centring attention on these dynamics manifest what might be termed ‘organizational geographies’. Thus, we contribute an empirical demonstration of the ways in which organizing as a sociospatial process occurs during everyday life in a more ‘informal’ site, thereby extending the contextual repertoire of organization studies. We also contribute a methodological approach for organization scholars to analyse everyday spatial production as a multidimensional process, pointing to the potential for greater cross-disciplinary fertilization with human geography in future organization research.
PB Organization Studies
SN 01708406
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7133
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/7133
LA eng
NO Organization Studies, In Print, 1 (2024)
NO Agencia Estatal de Investigación | Ref. RYC2021-034823-I
DS Investigo
RD 09-sep-2024