Innovation and logics in coworking spaces. a template for contemporary innovation spaces?

Coworking spaces (CWS) are contemporary organizations that foster innovation by facilitating collaboration, learning, and knowledge exchanges in shared work and social spaces. Yet, these positive effects can be offset by risks of knowledge leakage, conflicts, and competition. Our multi-method study thus investigates the complementary versus trade-off relationships and their innovation consequences in the settings of CWS. Based on data from a five-year exploratory study, we identify three emerging institutional logics, i.e., ‘a sense of community’ logic, a ‘traversity’ logic, and a ‘competitiveness’ logic. Our study concludes that each logic benefits the innovation and has complementary and trade-off relationships.