Jones, Ian and Faulconbridge, James Robert and Marsden, Greg and Anable, Jillian (2018) Demanding business travel : the evolution of the timespaces of business practice. In: Demanding energy : Space, time and change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 257-277. ISBN 9783319619903
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Abstract
To date, virtual ways of working have yet to substantially reduce demand for business travel. Emerging research claims that virtual and physical work compliment rather than substitute for one another. This suggests travel demand stems from business strategies and achieving business outcomes. In building on these ideas, this chapter draws upon Schatzki’s conception of timespace to capture changes in how two UK-based global construction and engineering consulting firms organise work and the implications in terms of demand for business travel. Overtime, particular forms of spatially stretched organisation which have developed are found to require the interweaving of timespaces through travel. As such, how each firm has evolved has in turn created the contemporary situation of significant and hard to reduce demand for travel.