SPACES AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: NEW ORGANIZATIONS, NEW THEORIZATIONS, NEW CONCERNS

Abstract

At the crossroads of new organizations and new theorizations of space, this introductory text aims first to highlight the difficulties of traditional approaches to space in organizational studies when it comes to dealing with the sensitive, inhabited, moving, and resisting dimensions of organizational spaces. It thus calls for the spatial turn in organizational studies to be further developed. The articles in this issue are part of such an ambition, revealing some of the issues and challenges of new configurations, territorialization, and their consequences on work. They propose new spatial perspectives on themes such as proximity, visibility, meaning, control, and resistance. Finally, new directions, ambitions, and concerns for research in organizational behavior are outlined, including suggestions of avenues that consider space as a central dimension for thinking about organizations, in the light of changes in work and decolonial issues.