ABSTRACT In the last decade, the interest of managers and professionals for New Ways of Working (NWoW) has grown rapidly, as evidenced by multiple firms claiming to implement ‘NWoW workspaces’ in Belgium and in the Netherlands. NWoW is often used as a convenient umbrella term to designate a set of organizational adjustments that include open and ‘flexible’ workspaces, new IT tools, as well as cultural and managerial transformations believed to be ‘innovative’. While the academic literature has investigated several cases of NWoW workspaces through post-occupancy studies, there is at the present time no research available on the change process leading to these transformations. The ambition of the paper is to conceptualize NWoW as projects of organizational change subject to politics and power games. Through an empirical study of a multi-site media company implementing a NWoW project, the paper illustrates three implications of a political conception of NWoW. First, the ability of local actors to bargain and to twist the strategic intentions of the deciding authorities is highlighted. Second, the study underlines the crucial role of key intermediaries in designing NWoW projects. Third, participative approaches of change are critically discussed. The paper also provides recommendations for future research on NWoW.

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高卢村庄反击时：“新工作方式”项目背后的政治

摘要在过去的十年中，管理人员和专业人员对新工作方式（NWoW）的兴趣迅速增长，多家声称在比利时和荷兰实施“ NWoW工作区”的公司证明了这一点。NWoW通常用作方便的统称，用来表示一组组织调整，包括开放和“灵活”的工作区，新的IT工具以及被认为是“创新”的文化和管理变革。尽管学术文献已经通过占用后研究调查了NWoW工作区的几种情况，但目前尚无关于导致这些转变的变更过程的研究。本文的目标是将NWoW概念化为受政治和权力博弈约束的组织变革项目。通过对实施NWoW项目的多站点媒体公司的实证研究，本文说明了NWoW的政治概念的三个含义。首先，着重强调了地方行为者讨价还价和扭曲决策机构的战略意图的能力。其次，该研究强调了主要中介机构在设计NWoW项目中的关键作用。第三，对变革的参与性方法进行了批判性讨论。本文还提供了有关NWoW未来研究的建议。第三，对变革的参与性方法进行了批判性讨论。本文还提供了有关NWoW未来研究的建议。第三，对变革的参与性方法进行了批判性讨论。本文还提供了有关NWoW未来研究的建议。