The constitution of ‘third workspaces’ in between the home and the corporate office
研究了介于家庭和企业办公室之间的商业工作空间（第三工作空间）如何通过数字网络技术构成，基于两个民族志案例分析了物质环境、技术、工作意识形态和用户实践的作用，为管理和研究这类空间提供了分析框架。
This study analyses the constitution of commercially provided work spaces situated in between the home and the corporate office. These new workspaces are enabled by digital network technologies. Theoretically, this new category of contemporary business spaces is conceptualised as ‘third workspaces’, with reference to the work of Oldenburg (1989), Soja (1996) and Lefebvre (1991 [1974]). Empirically, these workspaces are explored in two ethnographic case studies dealing with recently founded and successful third workspace providers. The grounded theory resulting from these case studies addresses the role of the material settings, the technologies, the work ideologies as well as the user practices. Overall this study offers an analytical framework for studying and managing third workspaces, and highlights the ambiguities in the constitution of third workspaces between the design and management on the one hand and the user practices on the other.