Coworking-spaces: how a phenomenon of the sharing economy builds a novel trend for the workplace and for entrepreneurship

Ricarda B. Bouncken () and Andreas J. Reuschl
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Ricarda B. Bouncken: University of Bayreuth
Andreas J. Reuschl: University of Bayreuth

Review of Managerial Science, 2018, vol. 12, issue 1, No 11, 317-334

Abstract: Abstract The sharing economy brings a new phenomenon—coworking-spaces. One aspect of coworking-spaces is the sharing of office space; another is the sharing of social spaces beside the office. Both give rise to social interactions and thus knowledge and idea exchanges which might provide more than a mere sharing of working-spaces but of entrepreneurship or of incubation. Coworking-spaces stimulate the finding of mates for teams, projects, and entrepreneurship. This paper introduces coworking-spaces into management research. We deliver an understanding of coworking-spaces and then identify key factors which lead to our conceptual model. Our model assumes that performance, especially entrepreneurial performance improves by the learning processes among coworking-users that take upon the individual efficacy, trust and community among coworking-users. All the concepts have a positive relation. Yet, opportunism, often as knowledge leakage, will directly and indirectly spoil learning processes and entrepreneurial performance as it reduces their antecedents trust and community building.

Keywords: Coworking space; Entrepreneurship; Self-efficacy; Open innovation; Learning; Literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M13 M19 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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