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Emerging entrepreneurship and its spatiality

Enterprise
Foram Desai, 2019

When an individual starts owning machinery and hiring labour in a piece of land to produce goods or service an Enterprise is formed. Through history, enterprises have evolved. Looking back at post industrialisation period, there were large production houses e.g. Textile Mills which carried out all the processes to convert cotton to cloth. These broke down to fragmented production units where only one or two processes took place. Eventually, the investments of land, structure and other resources needed to build these small production units were increasing. Hence, Industrial Estates emerged which had pre-built galas with shared resources. When technology like computers, soft data-keeping, soft marketing etc was integrated into the enterprises, service sector started booming. As a response to this boom, front offices in tall glass buildings emerged. In this evolution, the nature of enterprise i.e. its organisational form transformed which reflected in its spatiality i.e. the spatial form.

In current times, new enterprises are emerging every year. In past 5 years, a shift in the nature of enterprises is seen. They are moving towards creative fields which are influenced by social media. New organisational forms and spatial forms are emerging. However, these enterprises adapt to the existing space and there is less or no spatial equivalence. This study aims at understanding the new organisational and spatial forms which can help to speculate the architecture that the new enterprise is demanding.

Transitional sociability: a study of the urban fishing villages of Mumbai

Enterprise
Ami Joshi, 2019

Neighbourhoods as networks: work and living in Mumbai’s work-based neighbourhoods

Enterprise
Divya Agarwal, 2019

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