Towards a Spatial Turn in Organization Science? – A Long Wait

14 Pages Posted: 15 May 2010 Last revised: 10 Jun 2011

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

This paper examines the importance of the spatial dimension of organizing, in particular the proximity in interorganizational networks. It argues that organization science has a long way to go to take the spatial dimension into account in adequate way when theorizing organizations and interorganizatinal relationships and networks.

Keywords: network, research, region, organization science, space

Suggested Citation

Sydow, Jörg, Towards a Spatial Turn in Organization Science? – A Long Wait (2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1605173 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1605173

Jörg Sydow (Contact Author)

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