Organisational Space and Beyond

10 Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of the City

A Case Study in China

Zhongyuan Zhang

Introduction

Lefebvre’s reflections on social space have profoundly changed the ways scholars think about the physical environment of organizations. As researchers start from their own perspectives to engage with Lefebvre’s thinking and develop research agendas for organizational space, new questions also arise that require closer scrutiny. One such question concerns the dynamics of social space. Earlier seminal works (Dale, 2005; Dale and Burrell, 2008) recognize organizational space as social materiality; more recently, a body of literature points to the direction that organizational space may be seen as social processes. For instance, Beyes and Steyaert (2012) ...