When Merleau-Ponty meets Engeström in coworking spaces

Aurore Dandoy ()
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Aurore Dandoy: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the key role of the community manager of coworking spaces and to contribute to the understanding of human activity through a boarder approach of working as human: embodied phenomenology. Using the 4G-CHAT (Engeström, 2009) approach aswell as embodied phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, 1942,1945) and organizational ethnography (Ybema et al., 2009), we find not just a community manager but a catalyst ; a multilevel community ; a legitimation process and embodied phenomenology to deepen the 4G-CHAT model on community dimension. This paper aims to offer an overview of an emergent field of studies, to improve the phenomenological aspect of the 4G-CHAT (Engeström, 2009) with the embodied phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (1942, 1945) and to contribute to managerial implications(two HRM contributions).

Keywords: phenomenology; activity theory; collaborative spaces; coworking; community; community manager; catalyst; ethnography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07
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Published in EGOS Sub-Theme 64: Activity Theory and Organizations, Jul 2017, Copenhague, Denmark

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