ABSTRACT

The spatial turn observed in the field of organization studies in the past decades led to an increasing production of research on space and organization that responds to calls made by ground-breaking works in the area (Baldry, 1999; Dale and Burrell, 2008; Kornberger and Clegg, 2003, 2004). The literature on space has been particularly insightful in tackling issues of organizational control (Dale, 2005; Hancock and Spicer, 2011; Hirst and Humphreys, 2013) and organizational boundaries (Fleming and Spicer, 2008; Maréchal, Linstead, and Munro, 2013; Munro and Jordan, 2013). However, extant work has focussed on interrogating in/about the workplace or spatial theories of organization as a processual activity. There has been little work on what Dale and Burrell (2008) call the organization of space across organizations—in opposition to the (internal) space of organizations—that shows the lasting effects of the organizational activity in the territory and beyond.