Placeness and Organisational Socialisation: Influences of Place for Employees of Creative and Cultural Micro-Enterprises

Lugar y socialización organizacional: razones de la localización de los trabajadores de pequeñas empresas creativas y culturales

Anne-Laure Saives, Brigitte Charles-Pauvers (), Nathalie Schieb-Bienfait () and Basile Michel ()
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Anne-Laure Saives: ESG-UQAM - UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal
Brigitte Charles-Pauvers: IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes, LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Nathalie Schieb-Bienfait: IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes, LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Basile Michel: ESO - Espaces et Sociétés - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UM - Le Mans Université - UA - Université d'Angers - AGROCAMPUS OUEST - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes

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Abstract: In what way does geographic location, at the neighbourhood level, influences the work commitment of a specific set of workers: independent creative professionals or salaried entrepreneurs in creative, cultural microenterprises? Referring to recent literature on relational geography, we examine "placeness" in the context of workers in the "Quartier des Olivettes", one of Nantes Metropole's creative clusters. Thirty-two individual interviews reveal two series of placeness properties (identity, familiarity, vitality and everydayness; centrality, connectivity and serendipity) which support organisational socialisation. The place/quarter emerges as a third-organisation reducing incertitude and instability.

Keywords: creative and cultural activities; freelancers; lieuité; organisational socialisation; placeness; quarter; salaried entrepreneurs; work commitment; Lugar; localización; empresarios; trabajadores independientes; actividades creativas y culturales; socialización organizacional; implicación laboral; barrio; activités créatives et culturelles; entrepreneurs salariés; implication au travail; Lieu; Place; quartier; socialisation organisationnelle; travailleurs indépendants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2016, 21 (1), pp.41-57. ⟨10.7202/1052496ar⟩

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