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Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity
Coworking spaces (CWS) are open creative labs that provide a community-like environment and the necessary surroundings for their users to build and maintain networks with different actors inside and outside the CWS. With a wide variety of knowledge and skills available in trusted surroundings as wel...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868670/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11846-021-00445-0 |
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author | Rese, Alexandra Görmar, Lars Herbig, Alena |
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description | Coworking spaces (CWS) are open creative labs that provide a community-like environment and the necessary surroundings for their users to build and maintain networks with different actors inside and outside the CWS. With a wide variety of knowledge and skills available in trusted surroundings as well as similar value orientations, coworkers enjoy favorable conditions to establish their network-style. However, research has not investigated the benefit of coworkers’ social networks as far as their individual creativity is concerned so far. This paper takes several network characteristics into account: structure in terms of network size and centrality in the CWS, but also trusted and reciprocal relationships, supportiveness, diversity of knowledge exchanged, and the individual openness to core coworking values. Based on the literature on social networks and small group research, we developed a research model. We tested it to get deeper insights into the phenomenon by relying on 113 coworkers in 33 private German coworking spaces. The results show that a central position in the CWS allowing for direct exchange and high individual openness to core coworking values positively affects social involvement and the diversity of knowledge exchanged, and finally, a coworker’s individual creativity. Managerial implications include the vital role of a central position in the CWS for creativity and a somewhat balanced composition of coworkers working alone or in a team. |
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spelling | pubmed-78686702021-02-09 Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity Rese, Alexandra Görmar, Lars Herbig, Alena Rev Manag Sci Original Paper Coworking spaces (CWS) are open creative labs that provide a community-like environment and the necessary surroundings for their users to build and maintain networks with different actors inside and outside the CWS. With a wide variety of knowledge and skills available in trusted surroundings as well as similar value orientations, coworkers enjoy favorable conditions to establish their network-style. However, research has not investigated the benefit of coworkers’ social networks as far as their individual creativity is concerned so far. This paper takes several network characteristics into account: structure in terms of network size and centrality in the CWS, but also trusted and reciprocal relationships, supportiveness, diversity of knowledge exchanged, and the individual openness to core coworking values. Based on the literature on social networks and small group research, we developed a research model. We tested it to get deeper insights into the phenomenon by relying on 113 coworkers in 33 private German coworking spaces. The results show that a central position in the CWS allowing for direct exchange and high individual openness to core coworking values positively affects social involvement and the diversity of knowledge exchanged, and finally, a coworker’s individual creativity. Managerial implications include the vital role of a central position in the CWS for creativity and a somewhat balanced composition of coworkers working alone or in a team. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-02-08 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC7868670/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11846-021-00445-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Rese, Alexandra Görmar, Lars Herbig, Alena Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity |
title | Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity |
title_full | Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity |
title_fullStr | Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity |
title_full_unstemmed | Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity |
title_short | Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity |
title_sort | social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker’s creativity |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7868670/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11846-021-00445-0 |
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