Space and Organizing

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

• Contents:1 Introduction: shifting perspectives on the organizingproperties of space 1Andreas Diedrich, Gustavo Guzman and Franck Cochoy2 Spatial agencing, privilege and new ways of working 16Lucia Crevani and Claudia Manca3 Messy space = creative space: boundary work inorganizational creativity 31Anna Grzelec4 Constructing the workplace: the agency of space, humanand non-human agencements 47Karolina J. Dudek5 Agencing influencer femininity through cyberspatial relations 61Magdalena Petersson McIntyre6 Between skills development and rural development:agencing a Swedish training centre for furnituremanufacturing in South Africa 75Andreas Diedrich and Airi Rovio-Johansson7 The role of space and aesthetics in directing andreinforcing human agency: organizing space ina Protestant mission station in colonial Congo 89Simon Larsson8 Economics performativity and its consequences foraccounting and organizational spaces: the case of publicsector reforms 104Peter Skærbæk, Kjell Tryggestad and Mark Christensen9 Spatial agencing, geographies of marketisation and themultiple spaces of the global economy 121Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler10 Robot-like rockets as “double agents” in outer space 135Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges11 Epilogue: a reflexive experiment of/on spatial agencing 151Franck CochoyBibliography 169Index 186

‘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.’