When Merleau-Ponty meets Engeström in coworking spaces
Résumé
The purpose of this paper is to study the key role of the community manager of coworking spaces and to contribute to the understanding of human activity through a boarder approach of working as human: embodied phenomenology. Using the 4G-CHAT (Engeström, 2009) approach aswell as embodied phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, 1942,1945) and organizational ethnography (Ybema et al., 2009), we find not just a community manager but a catalyst ; a multilevel community ; a legitimation process and embodied phenomenology to deepen the 4G-CHAT model on community dimension. This paper aims to offer an overview of an emergent field of studies, to improve the phenomenological aspect of the 4G-CHAT (Engeström, 2009) with the embodied phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (1942, 1945) and to contribute to managerial implications(two HRM contributions).