%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T Collaborative Capability in Coworking Spaces: Convenience Sharing or Community Building? %A Marcelo F. Castilho %A Carlos O. Quandt %K collaboration %K collaborative knowledge work %K collaborative workspaces %K coworking %K innovativeness %X This study explores the development of collaborative capability in coworking spaces. It is based on the perception of collaboration among 31 coworking founders, community managers, and coworkers of those spaces. In-depth interviews around the meaning of collaboration and its challenges were conducted in 14 coworking spaces located in six Asian countries. A set of factors was identified and a model was proposed based on a set of four dimensions: enabling knowledge sharing, enhancing a creative field, enhancing an individual action for the collective, and supporting a collective action to an effective execution. The “Convenience Sharing” and “Community Building” coworking types based on Capdevila (2014) suggest different conditions under which collaborative capability develops. Convenience Sharing coworking spaces tend to foster collaborative capability through knowledge sharing and effective execution, whereas Community Building coworking spaces tend to foster collaborative capability by enhancing a creative field and individual action for the collective. Overall, this study contributes to a theoretical model for coworking spaces to help coworking founders and community managers make strategic decisions. The findings suggest that collaborative capability in coworking spaces depends on the interlacing of a set of factors along four dimensions that relate in varying degrees of intensity to a two-fold coworking space typology. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 32-42 %8 12/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1126 %N 12 %1 Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná Marcelo F. Castilho is a PhD student at the Business School of Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. He holds a Master of Arts in Automotive Design from Coventry University in the United Kingdom. His professional background includes a 22-year career dealing with product innovation, first as an expert and later as a design manager in the commercial vehicle sector. His research and consulting work includes organizations in search for collaboration capabilities and design thinking methods to achieve results, considering aspects of creativity, innovation, sustainability, and individual wellbeing and inner balance. %2 Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná Carlos O. Quandt is a Professor at the Business School of Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. He received his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States. His research and consulting work include projects for the Institute of the Americas, the International Research and Development Centre (Canada), the Center for North American Integration and Development, the New Vision Business Council of Southern California, the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies (USA). His key areas of interest and experience are in the fields of innovation and knowledge management, innovativeness, clusters and networks, and regional development. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1126