Research

Papers

Books / Edited Volumes

Guest-editing / Special Issues

Projects

Conferences

Policy reports and white papers

Lectures & Conference talks

Awards / Financial rewards

Papers

Šebová, M.; Lukeš Rybanská, I. and Čorejová, T. 2025. Gender Equality Plans in Slovak Universities: Between Implementation and Resistance. Social Inclusion. Forthcoming.

Šlapáková Losová, V., & Orel, M. (2025). Virtual reality as an engagement driver in professional meetings. Information Technology & People, 1-18. Forthcoming. 

Bennis, W. M., & Orel, M. (2025). Four models of the coworking concept to facilitate remote higher education. Facilities, 43(7/8), 426-443.

Kania, K. (2025). NOvation and Indigenous struggle for land: Club Med’s failure in New Caledonia. Tourism Geographies, 27(2), 213-233.

Mezihorák, P. (2025). Ukrainian female refugees in Czechia after the Russian full-scale invasion: social reproduction of ‘(low) skill’?. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(5), 1371-1389.

Shadnam, M., Keim, C., & Orel, M. (2025). Ambition in popular business practitioner-oriented discourse: What the heck are we talking about?. Management Learning,. Forthcoming.

Mezihorák, P., & Murgia, A. (2025). Representing and organising the solo self-employed in Europe: The emergence of a ‘relational representation’ from the combination of prefigurative and contentious politics. Organization. Forthcoming.

Antonazzo, L., Sansone, G., & Orel, M. (2025). The Impact of Industry 4.0 and State Incentives on Firms’ Skills Needs: An Empirical Investigation of the Italian Manufacturing Sector. R&D Management. Forthcoming.

Orel, M., Mariotti, I., & Zhurbas, V. (2024). Experiencing disruption and transformation of communal environments: War’s influence on Ukrainian coworking spaces. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 13675494241237067. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241237067

Vogl, T., & Orel, M. (2024). The promise and perils of coworking in residential areas: A systematic review of health and community impacts. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 17(2), 156–174. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-05-2023-0069

Vogl, T., Orel, M., & Appel-Meulenbroek, R. (2024). Exploring the characteristics of non-urban coworking spaces in Germany and their perceived benefits for corporate users: Novel means for supporting corporate real estate management strategies. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 17(1), 137–156. https://doi.org/10.1108/JERER-11-2023-0045

Lukeš Rybanská, I., & Čada, K. (2024). The Power of the Powerless: Constructions of Self-Employment in Czechia. Social Inclusion, 12, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.7820

Bennis, W., & Orel, M. (2024). Taboo Trade-Offs in the Community Business: The Case of Coworking. Journal of Management Inquiry, 33, 77–91. https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926231187292

Orel, M. (2023). Wanderlust workforce: A journey into understanding digital nomadism. World Leisure Journal, 65, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2210017

Sánchez Vergara, I., Orel, M., & Capdevila, I. (2023). ‘Home office is the here and now.’ Digital nomad visa systems and remote work-focused leisure policies. World Leisure Journal, 65. https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2165142

Orel, M. (2023). Autoethnography in the modern workplace: A reflexive journey. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-06-2023-0038

Bennis, M., Mayerhoffer, M., Orel, M. & Lukes, M. (2022). Methodological Considerations in the Open-Plan Office Paradox: A Systematic Literature Review. Work. ahead-of-print

Orel, M., Mayerhoffer, M., Fratricova, J., Pilkova, A., Starnawska, M., & Horvath, D. (2021). Coworking spaces as talent hubs: The imperative for community building in the changing context of new work. Review of Managerial Science, 1-29.

Orel, M., & Bennis, W. M. (2021). Classifying changes. A taxonomy of contemporary coworking spaces. Journal of Corporate Real Estate. (ahead-of-print)

Orel, M., & Mayerhoffer, M. (2021). Qualitative Research Methods for the Exploration of Coworking Environments. Qualitative Report, 26(5).

Appel-Meulenbroek, R., Weijs-Perrée, M., Orel, M., Gauger, F., & Pfnür, A. (2020). User preferences for coworking spaces; a comparison between the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic. Review of Managerial Science, 1-24.

Orel, M., Bennis, W. (2020). The perspective of a coworking space model in scholarly settings. On the Horizon.

Orel, M., & Dvouletý, O. (2020). Transformative changes and developments of the coworking model: A narrative review. In Technological Progress, Inequality and Entrepreneurship (pp. 9-27). Springer, Cham.

Orel, M. (2020). Life is better in flip flops. Digital nomads and their transformational travels to Thailand. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research.

Mayerhoffer, M. (2020). Growth factors of the coworking industry: the case of Prague. Journal of Property Investment & Finance.

Orel, M., & Almeida, M. D. M. A. (2019). The ambience of collaboration in coworking environments. Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 21(4), 273-289.

Orel, M. (2019). Coworking environments and digital nomadism: balancing work and leisure whilst on the move. World Leisure Journal, 61(3), 215-227.

Orel, M., & Kubátová, J. (2019). Coworking as a model for conscious business. Journal of Global Responsibility, 10(3), 257-270.

Books / Edited Volumes

Tagliaro, C., Orel, M., & Hua, Y. (Eds.). (2023). Methodological Approaches for Workplace Research and Management. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Methodological-Approaches-for-Workplace-Research-and-Management/Tagliaro-Orel-Hua/p/book/9781032256153

Orel, M., Dvouletý, O., & Ratten, V. (Eds.). (2021). The flexible workplace: coworking and other modern workplace transformations. Springer Nature.

Guest-editing / Special Issues
Special Issue: Leisure, knowledge work and the digital nomad. World Leisure Journal. 2021/2022

Special Issue: Meeting Remotely – The Challenges of Optimal Avatar Interaction in VR. Frontiers in Virtual Reality. 2020/2021

Special Issue: Workplace transformation in the post-Covid-19 society. Journal of Corporate Real Estate. 2020/2021

Projects
Horizon REMAKING, partner in an international project coordinated by the University of Bologna, 2024-2027

Academic Coworking Spaces. Erasmus+ KA2020, 2022 – 2024

The Impact of Open-plan Offices on Performance and Well-being Revisited: The Case of Coworking, The Czech Science Foundation, 2020 – 2023

Managing Human Talent in Coworking Environments, Visegrad Fund, 2019 – 2020

Conferences (co-organized)

Coworking Symposium

Policy reports and white papers

Orel, M. (in collaboration with Anna Pilkova, Dora Horvath and Marzena Starnawska) In Support of Coworking Environments: Policy and Other Supportive Mechanisms.

Lectures & Conference talks

Parallel Workplace Realities in the (Post) Pandemic World: The Case for Virtual Coworking. @ The 15th International Days of Statistics and Economics, Prague, September 2021

Perceived well-being and productivity of a senior citizen during the Covid-19 lockdown. An account of collaborative witnessing. @ Work, Employment and Society Conference 2021: Connectedness, Activism and Dignity at work in a Precarious Era, online, August 2021

Managing Talent in Coworking Spaces, Manuel Mayerhoffer @ Coworking Conference & Barcamp, online, April 2020

On New Collaborative Office Types, Marko Orel @ RGCS Symposium, Lyon, France, January 2020

Taxonomy of Coworking Spaces, Marko Orel @ Coworking Europe Conference, Warsaw, Poland, November 2019

Awards / Financial rewards
SAMS Funding

Literati Award Winner 2020 – Highly Commended Paper (Journal of Corporate Real Estate)