Abstract
Coworking spaces are communal and collaborative workplaces which cater the occupants with various amenities like workstations, meeting spaces, cafeterias, networking events, and private offices. The users of coworking spaces are from different fields dealing with different kinds of businesses. It includes freelancers, tech professionals, entrepreneurs, self employed workers, architectures, artists etc. As the members are from different fields, they can share different ideas and they will get access to various mindsets of people. This study deals with the effect of social interactions in the coworking spaces on creative performance and the mediating role of knowledge sharing.Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) analysis proven the significant relationship of Social Interaction and Creative Performance. The results also confirm that, the influence of social interaction on creative performance through Knowledge Sharing exhibit even stronger statistical significance as mediator than the direct link between social interaction and creative performance.
Keywords: creative performance, coworking spaces, knowledge sharing, social interaction.
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