Collaborative spaces: a new approach to working strongly embedded in local institutions

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Maurizio Busacca, Fabrizio Montanari, Anna Chiara Scapolan
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2022/129
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 71-89 File size 383 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2022-129004
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Collaborative spaces are capturing growing interest of scholars from different disciplines, but their studies tend to be mainly focused on the analysis of the organization and cooperative mechanisms within these spaces rather than on the territorial embeddedness of these collabora-tive spaces. This paper aims at investigating how collaborative spaces can be influenced by their social and economic context. In order to achieve this, it presents the results of exploratory research conducted in 2020 on collaborative spaces in the Veneto region. The research shows a strong coherence between the emerging phenomenon of collaborative spaces and the Veneto region’s socio-economic heritage, which is based on a system of small, diffuse and socially-rooted enterprises.

Keywords: collaborative spaces, Veneto, embeddedness, coworking, territorial system, socio-economic heritage

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Maurizio Busacca, Fabrizio Montanari, Anna Chiara Scapolan, Spazi collaborativi: un nuovo modo di lavorare ma con radici profonde nelle istituzioni locali in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 129/2022, pp 71-89, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2022-129004