Building collaboration? Co-location and “dis-location” in a railway control post

This paper studies the design of co-located spaces and how organizational actors experience such spaces. The literature on co-location is ambiguous about how reduced physical distance increases collaboration. To address this problem, we draw on an ethnographic study of a co-located railway control c...

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Main Authors: Thijs Willems, Alfons van Marrewijk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getulio Vargas 2017-12-01
Series:RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas
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Online Access:http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rae/article/view/72492/70266