From dust to buzz : Reconfiguring space for organization-creation
Kuismin, A., Wickström, A., Hietanen, J., & Katila, S. (2024). From dust to buzz : Reconfiguring space for organization-creation. Organization Studies, 45(4), 523-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231225041
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In this paper, we examine the relationship between space and entrepreneurship, understood as organization-creation, by drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s spatial theorizing. Building on an ethnographic study of the Nordic Start-Up Incubator, we focus on the ongoing material, discursive, and affective reconfiguration of space to promote entrepreneurial ‘buzz’. We show how emancipatory promises (smoothings) are entangled with a logic of enterprise (striations), and how this ambiguity is enacted (folds) as organization-creation emerges spatially. This allows us to problematize the distinction often made between entrepreneurial spaces of emancipation and managerial spaces of control and to consider how they may co-constitute each other through subtle twists and turns. We conclude by discussing this multiplicity and ambiguity with regard to the politics of entrepreneurial spaces.
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This research was supported by Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (grant 264/31/2013).License
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