Dr. Oscar Pakos

Dr. Oscar Pakos

Doctoral Thesis

Creating Workplaces That Matter: Understanding the Value and Mechanisms of Creative Workspaces

Creative workplaces are working environments with unique physical structures and elements that promote creative behavior and represent an innovative organization to the outside world. Given that the physical work environment influences creative behavior, providing adequate workspaces for employees is now seen as crucial to an organization’s ability to innovate. It is, therefore, not surprising that pioneering companies around the world are implementing modern workspace designs as part of the concept often referred to as New Work and using them as a strategic resource to significantly influence employees’ performance for long-term corporate success. The physical work environment represents a valuable organizational tool and a central platform within companies that brings people, technologies, and ideas together, resulting in competitive advantages.

In five scientific articles, academics and organizational decision makers will learn about the motivation, impact, and behavioral changes of employees that accompany a workplace transformation, and they will understand what requirements a modern work environment needs to meet to support creativity and innovation.

Research Output

Journal Articles

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

Conference Contributions

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Presentations

2021

2019