Sustainable coworking: the member perspective
Journal article, 2024

Purpose: Sustainability is regarded as a core value that the coworking movement aspires to. However, most sustainability efforts focus on the providers’ perspective while neglecting the coworking members’ role. Therefore, this paper aims to explore sustainable coworking from the members perspective by focusing on sustainable behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a flexible pattern matching approach. Theoretical patterns are identified using literature on coworking space and sustainable behavior while matching them with the empirical data. Data were collected from three different coworking spaces in Sweden through interviews and observations.
Findings: Based on the theoretical patterns, three constructs for sustainable coworking were identified, namely, productive behavior, prosocial behavior and responsible space sharing behavior. Through the empirical data, the constructs were further concretized to understand their different aspects. The findings uncovered a new layer of complexity where members can show the same behavior and be perceived differently.
Originality/value: This study offers a more holistic understanding of sustainable coworking by highlighting the members’ role and identifying different member perceptions on sustainable coworking behaviors.

Coworking spaces

Productive behavior

Sustainable coworking behavior

Responsible space sharing behavior

Prosocial behavior

Sustainable behavior

Author

Daniel Magnusson

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Service Management and Logistics

Hendry Raharjo

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Service Management and Logistics

Petra Bosch-Sijtsema

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Service Management and Logistics

Journal of Corporate Real Estate

1463-001X (ISSN) 1479-1048 (eISSN)

Vol. 26 2 153-175

Subject Categories

Work Sciences

DOI

10.1108/JCRE-06-2023-0020

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Latest update

5/11/2024