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Working Alone Together: Coworking as Emergent Collaborative Activity
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Mobile professionals can choose to work in offices, executive suites, home offices, or other spaces. But some have instead chosen to work at coworking spaces: open-plan office environments in which they work alongside other unaffiliated professionals for a fee of approximately $250 a month. But what service are they actually purchasing with that monthly fee? How do they describe that service? From an activity theory perspective, what are its object, outcome, and actors? This article reports on a 20-month study that answers such questions.
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- Authors
- Spinuzzi, C.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Spinuzzi, Clay
- ORCID
- Spinuzzi, Clay
- Venue
- Journal of Business and Technical Communication
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-05-30
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 399-441
- ISSN
- 0892-5720 (ISSN-L)
- 1050-6519
- 1552-4574
- OpenAlex
- W2113431735
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- 40
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- FWCI
- 24.63
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- journal article
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- en
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- Journal of Business and Technical Communication (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Architecture › Facilities and Workplace Management
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Keywords
- coworking spaces, mobile professionals, activity theory, open-plan offices, service design
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