Spacing Identity: The role of Spatial, Material and Social Entanglements

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Abstract

The paper addresses the question of how architectural design and the changes in organizationalspaces and material artifacts this involves, contribute to the continuous shaping of identities in anorganization. Based upon a case study of an organizational and architectural change process in amunicipality administration, at a time of major political reforms within the Danish public sector, weexplore how architectural design affects the “micro politics” of everyday work to (re)form tasks andprofessional relationships – while also being implicated in the unfolding of a larger political agenda.Aspiring to contribute to the further theorizing of space in relation to the everyday practices andencounters of an organization, we propose the notion of “spacing identity” as a concept that cancapture the processual aspects of organizational space.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato2017
Antal sider33
StatusUdgivet - 2017
BegivenhedThe 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017: The Good Organization - Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Danmark
Varighed: 6 jul. 20178 jul. 2017
Konferencens nummer: 33
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Konference

KonferenceThe 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017
Nummer33
LokationCopenhagen Business School
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByCopenhagen
Periode06/07/201708/07/2017
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Emneord

  • Spacing
  • Organizational change
  • Architectural design
  • Occupational and organizational identity

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