The Coworking (R)evolution

Edited by Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Professor of Human Resource Management and Labor Economics, Business School, TELUQ University, University of Québec, Montréal, Canada and Gerhard Krauss, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Business and Social Administration, School of Social Sciences, Rennes 2 University, France

Contents:

Introduction to The Coworking (R)evolution 1
Gerhard Krauss and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

PART I CONCEPTUALIZATION AND DEFINITIONS OF THIRD
PLACES, COWORKING, AND COWORKING SPACES
1 Third places, coworking, and coworking spaces as concepts responding
to current social and economic trends 7
Gerhard Krauss and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
2 Collaborative working, coworking spaces, and communities of practice:
their origins, definitions, forms, different types, and forms of collaboration 26
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez

PART II THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES
3 How coworking spaces have spread beyond larger metro areas: a spatial
diffusion analysis in France 42
Christine Liefooghe, Guy Baudelle, Sébastien Le Gall, and Clément Marinos
4 A new mode of reconciliation of professional and personal life: the
contribution of coworking space 59
Guy Baudelle, Flavie Ferchaud, Gerhard Krauss, Anne-Laure Peyrou, and
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
5 Perceived health and well-being of workers: understanding the effects
observed in coworking spaces 75
Nathalie Marceau and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

PART III SOCIAL EXCHANGE, COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION
6 Motivations to collaborate and motivations to work in coworking
spaces: a comparative analysis 93
Jennifer Urasadettan, Anne-Laure Le Nadant, Pascal Glémain, and Gerhard
Krauss
7 Coworking, legitimate practice, and physical presence in the modern workplace 111
Peter A. Bacevice and Gretchen M. Spreitzer
8 Co-working and entrepreneurship in non-metropolitan Third
Working-places: which local transition? A first analysis in the west
region of France 125
Pascal Glémain, Jennifer Urasadettan, and Valérie Billaudeau
9 Nuances of working together: the influence of managerial approaches
on collaboration within coworking spaces 142
Costantino Romeo, Ignasi Capdevila, Barbara Da Roit, and Maurizio Busacca

PART IV THE MOBILITY OF CO-WORKERS
10 Coworking spaces: a way of promoting more sustainable mobility and
lifestyles? The example of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France 160
Patricia Lejoux, Aurore Flipo, Nathalie Ortar, Nicolas Ovtracht, and
Stéphanie Souche-Lecorvec
11 Daily mobility patterns of coworkers in non-metropolitan areas:
a French case study 174
Benoît Feildel

PART V THE DIVERSITY OF SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES,
INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT, COOPERATION, POLICY
MEASURES, AND MOBILITY PATTERNS: LESSONS
FROM EMPIRICAL FIELD STUDIES IN FRANCE, ITALY,
NORWAY, CANADA, VIETNAM, LEBANON AND POLAND
12 Coworking spaces, digital nomads, and urban development: insights
from Beirut, Lebanon 192
Divya Leducq and Étienne Bou Abdo
13 Third places for transitions? The role of an awareness-raising method
with the transition-meter 209
Valérie Billaudeau and Pascal Glémain
14 The coworking space: a catalyst for initiatives at the crossroad of
mobility and embeddedness. Lessons from peripheral areas of Western France 226
Sébastien Le Gall, Guy Baudelle, Anne-Laure Peyrou, and Clément Marinos
15 Public libraries as new community hubs for remote workers? 244
Mina Di Marino and Ilaria Mariotti
16 The diversity of coworking spaces: case studies from Canada 257
Arnaud Scaillerez and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
17 The little-observed spread of coworking spaces in Asia and their
potential for urban and economic transition: the case of Vietnam 270
Helga-Jane Scarwell and Divya Leducq
18 Case studies in post-socialist Poland: the development of coworking
spaces in small towns and rural areas 284
Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska and Mariusz Czupich
Conclusion to the coworking (r)evolution 301
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Gerhard Krauss

Index