Dear Community,
Feel free to join us in our upcoming presenter symposium at AoM 2025 titled: "Organizing space and spatializing organization: Charting new territories of inquiry" (Session #16266)
Add it to your AOM schedule here: https://cdmcd.co/7bpwGz
ποΈ Tuesday, July 29, 2025
π 13:45 β 15:15 CEST (GMT+2)
π Bella Center, Room MR17
π£ Interested in spatial dynamics, materiality, or the design of organizational environments?
Our session dives into the spatial turn in entrepreneurship and organization studies - exploring how space is not just a backdrop, but a dynamic and active force that shapes, enables, and challenges how we organize. From coworking spaces to institutional dynamics, we aim to uncover and discuss new theoretical and empirical insights regarding the relationship between spaces / places and organization.
π₯ Intro:
ποΈ David Seidl (University of Zurich - Panel Introduction)
π₯ Discussion:
ποΈ Santi Furnari (City St George's, University of London - Discussant)
π₯ Presenters:
ποΈ Boukje Cnossen (Leuphana University LΓΌneburg): "We have always been nomads: Did organization studies really take the spatial turn?"
ποΈ Tina Dacin (Queen's University): "From space to place: The role of custodians in curating and navigating legacy"
ποΈ Sabina Keston-Siebert (University of Glasgow): "Can the spirit of the place be created?"
ποΈ Florian Koehne (Johannes Kepler University Linz): "Societal living spaces as multicellular systems: Towards an organism model of stakeholder governance"
Together, we will explore how organizations choose, use, and are shaped by space, and how this spatiality opens up new pathways for understanding identity, governance, and innovation in organizational life.
Come join the discussion - we'd love to see you there and exchange ideas!
Cheers,
Florian, Tania, and Lukas
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Florian Koehne
Post Doctorate
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Linz
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