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DOI:10.1017/JMO.2017.46 - Corpus ID: 148608182
@article{Paoli2019TheSC, title={The spatial context of organizations: Critique of creative workspaces’}, author={Donatella De Paoli and Erika Sauer and Arja Ropo}, journal={Journal of Management \& Organization}, year={2019}, volume={25}, pages={331-352}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:148608182}}- Donatella De Paoli, Erika Sauer, Arja Ropo
- Published 1 March 2019
- Business, Sociology
- Journal of Management & Organization
This paper examines office design as a spatial context of organizations. Organizations increasingly invest in designing workspaces to support employee creativity, foster company innovation and communicate a positive company image. This paper takes a critical view of this ‘hype’ by describing and analysing images of the headquarters of allegedly ‘creative workspaces’ published on the internet across a broad range of industries and corporations. Our analysis shows how their design follows…
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