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@article{Paoli2017CreativeW, title={Creative workspaces - a fad or making real impact?}, author={Donatella De Paoli and Arja Ropo}, journal={Journal of Corporate Real Estate}, year={2017}, volume={19}, pages={157-167}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:56119939}}
  • Donatella De Paoli, Arja Ropo
  • Published 21 September 2017
  • Business
  • Journal of Corporate Real Estate

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the current trend of designing workspaces to foster creativity. The paper brings forth themes that seem to be connected with the so-called ‘creative workspaces’. The paper discusses how the findings relate to recent theory and research. Finally, the paper develops propositions to further elaborate the issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts an inductive and social constructionist approach. In all, 40 internet…

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