Space and Organizing On Spatial Agencing
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Biographical note
Edited by Gustavo Guzman, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith University, Australia, Andreas Diedrich, Associate Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Franck Cochoy, Professor of Sociology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and Senior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France, France<i>‘One of the greatest challenges of our time is to get rid of the conception of space as a given passive décor. As this book brilliantly demonstrates, the notion of spatial agencing provides powerful tools to explore the joint formation of space, time and subjectivities and to understand how globalization means integration as well as fragmentation.’</i>
- Michel Callon, École des mines de Paris, France,
Expert contributors employ a poststructuralist perspective to look at the importance of agencing for understanding organizing within and among multifarious spaces. In turn this provides a means of explaining how organizing unfolds through combinations of spatio-material and agential practices. Extending this research by highlighting the agential dynamics of organizing in relation to space, this book unpacks the concept of agencing, before considering how relational approaches to space have influenced the idea of spatial agencing. Connecting the work of Michel Callon and Franck Cochoy, Space and Organizing joins a forward-thinking and ever-expanding body of research. As space and society are the result of diverse ongoing activities that enable further organizing to take place, the book concludes that we should abandon the idea of a given space that people inhabit and transform.
This book offers a meaningful avenue to rethink how we interact with nature, distribute our activities, and organize our practices. Aimed at business and management researchers, PhD candidates and postgraduate students with a particular interest in organization studies and organizational behaviour, this book offers ways to engage with more positive routes of spatial agencing.