The street and organization studies

François-Xavier de Vaujany (), Boukje Cnossen and Stefan Haefliger
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François-Xavier de Vaujany: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Boukje Cnossen: Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Stefan Haefliger: Cass Business School - Cass Business School

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Abstract: Work and organization increasingly happen in transit. People meet in coffee shops and write emails from their phones while waiting for buses or sitting outdoors on benches. Business meetings are held in airports and projects are run from laptops during travel. We take the street as a place where organizing in transit accumulates. While the organization studies field has been catching up with various related phenomena, including co-working, digital nomadism, and mobile and online communities, we argue that it has overlooked what has historically been the most important site for organizational activity outside of organizations. The street has been both location and inspiration for organizing, whether political, social or governmental. It is a space of both planning and spontaneity, of silent co-existence and explicit conflict, and therefore offers abundant empirical and methodological opportunities. It is surprising that the street and the experiences it brings with it have remained largely outside the scope of organization studies. We suggest that organization scholars take to the street, and offer recommendations as to how to do so. Specifically, we explore the tensions that become apparent when organizing happens in and through the street.

Keywords: public space; information seeking; communication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Organization Studies, 2020, ⟨10.1177/0170840620918380⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/0170840620918380

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