The constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping: The production of sociomaterial control

IF 3.3 3区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Organization Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI:10.1177/13505084231198449

Emma Perriton

{"title":"The constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping: The production of sociomaterial control","authors":"Emma Perriton","doi":"10.1177/13505084231198449","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the emergence of sociomaterial practices and control dynamics of open office spacing by emphasising the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. With a Baradian approach to and agential realist ontology of sociomateriality, the article aims to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of working together by rethinking the conventional notions of and relations between groups and space. An ethnographic field study uncovers how sociomaterial grouping practices emerge and intraact through the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. Insights from this study show how these grouping practices are reconfigured in three different yet intraactive ways: as cultural, hierarchising and belonging practices. Further, the observations reveal how grouping practices produce control in new ways in the form of sociomaterial control through the visibility, transparency and materiality of open spacing, which carry implications for the design and collaborative organising of open offices, including privacy, embodied experiences, informal hierarchy, power relations and feelings of belonging, particularly for newcomers.","PeriodicalId":48238,"journal":{"name":"Organization","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Organization","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231198449","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

This article explores the emergence of sociomaterial practices and control dynamics of open office spacing by emphasising the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. With a Baradian approach to and agential realist ontology of sociomateriality, the article aims to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of working together by rethinking the conventional notions of and relations between groups and space. An ethnographic field study uncovers how sociomaterial grouping practices emerge and intraact through the constitutive entanglement between open office spacing and grouping. Insights from this study show how these grouping practices are reconfigured in three different yet intraactive ways: as cultural, hierarchising and belonging practices. Further, the observations reveal how grouping practices produce control in new ways in the form of sociomaterial control through the visibility, transparency and materiality of open spacing, which carry implications for the design and collaborative organising of open offices, including privacy, embodied experiences, informal hierarchy, power relations and feelings of belonging, particularly for newcomers.

查看原文本刊更多论文

开放式办公空间与分组的构成纠集:社会物质控制的产生

本文通过强调开放式办公空间与分组之间的本构纠缠，探讨了开放式办公空间的社会物质实践和控制动态的出现。本文以巴拉迪安式的方法和社会物质性的代理现实主义本体论，通过重新思考群体与空间之间的传统观念和关系，以期对合作有更深入、更全面的理解。一项人种学领域的研究揭示了社会物质分组实践是如何通过开放式办公室空间和分组之间的构成纠缠而出现和相互作用的。这项研究的见解表明，这些分组实践是如何以三种不同但互动的方式重新配置的:作为文化、等级和归属实践。此外，观察结果揭示了分组实践如何通过开放空间的可见性、透明度和物质性，以社会物质控制的形式以新的方式产生控制，这对开放式办公室的设计和协作组织有影响，包括隐私、具体化的体验、非正式的等级制度、权力关系和归属感，特别是对新人来说。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Organization MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

8.00

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： The journal encompasses the full range of key theoretical, methodological and substantive debates and developments in organizational analysis, broadly conceived, identifying and assessing their impacts on organizational practices worldwide. Alongside more micro-processual analyses, it particularly encourages attention to the links between intellectual developments, changes in organizational forms and practices, and broader social, cultural and institutional transformations.