Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/220027
Title: ROLE OF COWORKING SPACES AND THEIR ORGANISATIONAL APPROACH IN SOCIAL CAPITAL PRODUCTION
Authors: LOH JUN YI
Keywords: Building
PFM
Building Performance and Sustainability
Jonathan Lian
2017/2018 PFM
Coworking spaces
Social capital
Sense of community
Connections
Bridging within network
Bonding across network
Issue Date: 22-Jun-2018
Citation: LOH JUN YI (2018-06-22). ROLE OF COWORKING SPACES AND THEIR ORGANISATIONAL APPROACH IN SOCIAL CAPITAL PRODUCTION. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: Coworking spaces have been a phenomenon in changing the way people work today, offering people better work-life balance as well as social network connectivity. As these spaces continue to grow, their business focuses have also begun to mature and differentiate in different ways according to the various needs of coworking members. These coworking spaces, in combination with their different organisational approaches, have had various impacts on the coworking population – notably their social experience and also social capital. This study aims to uncover the role of coworking spaces and their organisational approach on the production of social capital. The objectives of this study are to (1) understand coworking spaces in the context of the social capital theory, (2) study the various missions of coworking spaces and how they operate in relation to them to produce social capital, (3) understand the intent of users in joining coworking spaces and what social resources they have gained in the space and (4) find out the extent of growth of members’ social capital in the different coworking spaces. To achieve these objectives, literature review, content analysis of websites, survey questionnaires and interviews were conducted with coworking space managers and members. This study found that there are 3 factors in coworking spaces which enable social capital production – the coworking space’s spatial layout, the coworking space manager and the coworking members. These factors contribute to the amount of interaction within the space, which affects the occurrence of access and exchange of social resources. This study also found that there are 2 factors in their organisational approach which affects the extent of social capital produced – vision setting and action on vision. Vision setting affects the prevalent type of social capital produced while action on vision affects the extent of bonding or bridging that occurs. One limitation of this study is the small sample size, which arises problems with generalisability of the samples studied to the whole coworking space population.
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/220027
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