Chair
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher
HCU Hamburg
Urban and Regional Economic Studies
Winterhuder Weg 31
D-22085 Hamburg
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Email: Gernot.Grabher@hcu-hamburg.de
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Visiting Professor, Columbia University, Department of Sociology, 2005
Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics, 2002
Visiting Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Program on Co-evolution of States and Markets, 1999
Visiting Fellow, Cornell University, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, 1995
Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, Palo Alto, 1994
Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems
Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, 2006-2010
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher, Prof. Dr. Meric Gertler (University of Toronto), Collegues of the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, University of Ottawa, Université de Montréal, University of Toronto
Mobile Places, Virtual Networks: The Geographies of User-Induced Innovation Processes
German Research Foundation GR 1913-7, 2006-2009
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher, Dr. Oliver Ibert, Dipl.-Soz. Saskia Flohr
Final Report
Learning in Personal Networks: Collaborative Knowledge Production in Virtual Forums
Volkswagen Foundation, 2005-2008
Prof. Gernot Grabher, Julia Maintz, MA in co-operation with Prof. David Stark and John Kelly, MA (Columbia University, Center on Organizational Innovation)
Overview | Final Report
Learning from Rare Events: Repositories of Knowledge in Temporary Organizations
2007-2009
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher, A. Prencipe (University of Sussex), E. Ciacciatori (Università Commerciale L. Bocconi)
Knowledge, Governance, and Projects: Configurations and Dynamics of the Project-Based Economy
Fondo per gli Investimenti della Ricerca di Base (FIRB), 2005-2008
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher, Prof. Dr. Anna Grandori (Università Commerciale L. Bocconi), Prof. Dr. Peter Maskell (Copenhagen Business School), Prof. Dr. Patrick Kenis (Tilburg University), Prof. Dr. Patrick Cohendet (Université de Montréal)
Production in Projects: Advertising Industry in Hamburg and Software Production in Munich (Produktion in Projekten: Das Beispiel der Werbebranche in Hamburg und der Softwareindustrie in München)
German Research Foundation GR 1913-3, 2002-2004
Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher and Dr. Oliver Ibert
Final Report
2010, (with O. Ibert), "Project Ecologies: A Contextual View on Creativity and Learning in Temporary Organizations." In: Morris, P., Pinto, J. and Söderlund, J., eds., Oxford Handbook on the Management of Projects. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009, "Networks." In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N., eds., International Enceclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 7. Oxford: Elsevier.
2009, "Yet Another Turn? The Evolutionary Project in Economic Geography." In: Economic Geography, 85(2): 119-127.
2008, (with O. Ibert and S. Flohr), "The Neglected King: The Customer in the New Knowledge Ecology of Innovation." In: Economic Geography, 84(3): 253-280.
2007, (with R. DeFillippi and C. Jones), “Paradoxes of Creativity: Managerial Challenges in the Creative Industries." In: Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28(3): 3-11.
2007, (with J. Maintz), “Learning in Personal Networks: Collaborative Knowledge Production in Virtual Forums.” In: Hof, H. and Wengenroth, U., eds., Innovationsforschung - Ansätze, Methoden, Grenzen und Perspektiven. Münster: LIT, pp. 187-202.
2004, (with W. W. Powell), Networks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (Critical Studies in Economic Institutions Series), 2 Volumes, v + 1290.
1997, (with D. Stark), Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism: Legacies, Linkages, and Localities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, x + 351.
1994, In Praise of Waste. Redundancy in Regional Development: A Socioeconomic Case. Berlin: Edition Sigma, (second edition 1995), iv + 166 (in German).
1993, The Embedded Firm. On the Socioeconomics of Industrial Networks. London and New York: Routledge, (second edition 1994), xiv + 306.
1992, (with J. Kregel and E. Matzner), The Market Shock. An Agenda for the Economic and Social Reconstruction of Central and Eastern Europe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, v + 198 (translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish).
1988, De-Industrialization or Neo-Industrialization? Innovation Processes and Innovation Policies in Old Industrial Areas. Berlin: Edition Sigma, vi + 336 (in German).
1986, (with B. Brezina, K. Ceron and N. Ströbinger), Tourism and Regional Development. Vienna: Wiener Beiträge zur Regionalwissenschaft, iv + 183 (in German).
2009, "Yet Another Turn? The Evolutionary Project in Economic Geography." In: Economic Geography, 85(2).
2007, (with R. DeFillippi and C. Jones), "Paradoxes of Creativity: Managerial and Organizational Challenges in the Cultural Economy." In: Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28(3).
2005, (with K. Einig, O. Ibert and W. Strubelt), "Urban Governance." In: Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, Special Issue, 9 (in German).
2003, (with R. Hassink), "Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance: Responding to Ann Markusen." In: Sub-section of Regional Studies, Special Issue, 37(6/7).
2002, "Fragile Sector, Robust Practice: Project Ecologies in New Media." In: Environment & Planning A, Theme Issue, 34(11).
2002, "Production in Projects: Economic Geographies of Temporary Collaboration." In: Regional Studies, Special Issue, 36(5).
2009, "Yet Another Turn? The Evolutionary Project in Economic Geography." In: Economic Geography, 85(2): 119-127.
2008, (with O. Ibert and S. Flohr), “The Neglected King: The Customer in the New Knowledge Ecology of Innovation.” Economic Geography, 84(3): 253-280.
2007, (with R. DeFillippi and C. Jones), “Paradoxes of Creativity: Managerial Challenges in the Creative Industries.” Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28(3): 3-11.
2006, “Trading Routes, Bypasses, and Risky Intersections: Mapping the Travels of ‘Networks’ between Economic Sociology and Economic Geography.” Progress in Human Geography, 30(2): 163-189.
2006, (with O. Ibert), “Bad company? The ambiguity of personal knowledge networks.” Journal of Economic Geography, 5(6): 251-271.
2005, (with K. Einig, O. Ibert and W. Strubelt), “Urban Governance.” Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, Special Issue, 9: 1-10 (in German).
2004, “Temporary Architectures of Learning: Knowledge Governance in Project Ecologies.” Organization Studies, Special Issue on Project Organizations, Embeddedness and Repositories of Knowledge, 25(9): 1491-1514.
2004, “Learning in Projects, Remembering in Networks? Communality, Sociality, and Connectivity in Project Ecologies.” European Urban and Regional Studies, 11(2): 99-119.
2004, “The markets are back!” Progress in Human Geography, 28(4): 421-423.
2002, “Fragile Sector, Robust Practice: Project Ecologies in New Media.” Environment & Planning A, Theme Issue, 34(11): 1911-1927.
2002, “Cool Projects, Boring Institutions: Temporary Collaboration in Social Context.” Regional Studies, Special Issue, 36(5): 213-222.
2002, “The Project Ecology of Advertising: Tasks, Talents, and Teams.” Regional Studies, Special Issue, 36(5): 245-262.
2001, “Ecologies of Creativity: The Village, the Group and the Heterarchic Organisation of the British Advertising Industry.” Environment & Planning A, 33: 351-374.
2001, “Locating Economic Action: Projects, Networks, Localities and Institutions.” Environment & Planning A, 33: 1329-1331.
1998, “Urbi et Orbi. Local Economies in Global Cities.” Der Öffentliche Sektor, 24(2/3): 1-24 (in German).
1997, (with D. Stark), “Organizing Diversity: Evolutionary Theory, Network Analysis, and Post-Socialism.” Regional Studies, 31(5): 533-544.
1994, “Instant Capitalism. Fragile Direct Investment in Eastern Germany.” Netherlands Geographical Studies, 181: 109-131.
1993, “Growth-Coalitions and Blockade-Alliances. The Role of Networks in Regional Development.” Informationen zur Raumentwicklung, 3: 111-121 (in German).
1992, “In Praise of Waste. The Significance of 'Redundant Capacities' in Regional Development.” Der Öffentliche Sektor, 17(2/3): 96-111 (in German).
1992, “Le Capitalisme sans Capitalistes? Démantèlement des Combinats, Investissements Occidentaux et Création d`Entreprises en Allemagne de'l Est.” Allemagne d'Aujourd'hui, 121: 65-84.
1992, “The Sold Economy: An Account of East German Privatisation Policy.” Employment Observatory East Germany of the Commission of the European Communities, 3: 3-6.
1991, “The New Divide. Economic Polarization in Eastern Germany.” Austrian Journal for Spatial Planning, 2: 15-22 (in German).
1990, “Between Markets and Hierarchies: New Forms of Inter-Firm Cooperation.” Der Öffentliche Sektor, 15(1): 14-25 (in German).
1989, “Regional Policy against De-Industrialization?” Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, 9: 59-82 (in German).
1989, “Regional Innovation by Networking: The Austrian Experience.” Journal of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2: 141-47.
1987, “The Case of Lower Austria: Reorganizing an Old Industrial Area.” Planung und Umwelt, 3: 3-9 (in German).
1986, “New Information and Communication Technologies in Old Industrial Areas.” Der Öffentliche Sektor, 11(3): 3-28 (in German).
1986, “Prometheus, Bound: The Role of Industrial Policies and Technical Change in Regional Development.” Der Öffentliche Sektor, 11(2): 28-59 (in German).
1984, (with W. Failmayr and Ch. Schremmer), “Socioeconomic Impacts of Tourism.” Seminarberichte der Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung, 21: 147-186 (in German).
1984, “Experimental Labour Market Policy.” Planung und Umwelt, 3: 41-44 (in German).
2010, (with O. Ibert), "Project Ecologies: A Contextual View on Creativity and Learning in Temporary Organizations." In: Morris, P., Pinto, J. and Söderlund, J., eds., Oxford Handbook on the Management of Projects. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009, “Networks.” In: Kitchen, R. and Thrift, N., eds., The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
2007, (with J. Maintz) “Learning in Personal Networks: Collaborative Knowledge Production in Virtual Forums.” In: Hof, H. and Wengenroth, U., eds., Innovation Research: Concepts, Methods, and Perspectives. Münster: LIT, pp. 187-202 (in German).
2005, “The Socio-Economics of Projects. A Kaleidoscopic View on Temporary Organizations.” In: Matzner, G. and Chaloupek, G., eds., Recent Advances in Socio-Economics. Marburg: Metropolis, pp. 7-23.
2004, (with W. W. Powell), “Exploring the Webs of Economic Life.” In: Grabher, G. and Powell, W. W., eds., Networks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (Critical Studies in Economic Institutions Series), pp. 1-36.
2004, “The City, the Village, and the Club: Knowledge Milieus in Project Ecologies.” In: Matthiesen, U. and Bürkner, H.-J., eds., City Regions and Knowledge. Opladen: Leske and Budrich, pp. 279-293 (in German).
2003, “Switching Ties, Recombining Teams: Avoiding Lock-In Through Project Organization?” In: Fuchs, G. and Shapira, P. eds., Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change: Path Dependency or Regional Breakthrough? Dordrecht: Kluwer.
1997, “Adaptation at the Cost of Adaptability? Restructuring the East German Regional Economy.” In: G. Grabher and D. Stark, eds., Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism: Legacies, Linkages, and Localities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 107-134.
1995, “The Elegance of Incoherence. Economic Transformation in East Germany and Hungary.” In: E. Dittrich, G. Schmidt and R. Whitley, eds., Industrial Transformation in Europe, London: Sage, pp. 33-54.
1994, The Dis-Embedded Economy. The Transformation of East German Industrial Complexes into Western Enclosures.” In: A. Amin and N. Thrift, eds., Globalization, Institutions, and Regional Development in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-196.
1993, “The Weakness of Strong Ties: The Lock-in of Regional Development in the Ruhr Area.” In: G. Grabher, ed., The Embedded Firm. On the Socioeconomics of Interfirm Relations, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 255-278. (Italian translation: “La Debolezza Dei Legami Forti. Il Ruolo Ambivalente Della Cooperazione Inter-Aziendale.” Piccola Impresa, 2: 3-25).
1993, “Rediscovering the Social in the Economics of Interfirm Relations.” In: G. Grabher, ed., The Embedded Firm. On the Socioeconomics of Interfirm Relations, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-33.
1992, “Eastern Conquista. The 'Truncated Industrialization' of East European Regions by Large West European Corporations.” In: H. Ernste and V. Meier, eds., Regional Development: A Contemporary Response, London: Belhaven Press, pp. 219-233.
1991, “Rebuilding Cathedrals in the Desert: New Cooperation Patterns between Large and Small Firms in the Coal, Iron, and Steel Complex.” In: E.M. Bergman, G. Maier and F. Tödtling, eds., Regions Reconsidered: Networks, Innovation, and Local Development in Industrialized Countries, London: Cassell, pp. 59-75.
1991, “Against De-Industrialization. A Strategy for Old Industrial Areas.” In: E. Matzner and W. Streeck, eds., Beyond Keynesianism: The Socio-Economics of Production and Full Employment, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 62-81.
1991, “Networks - An Approach for Revitalizing the Ruhr Area?” In: J. Hilbert, M. Kleinaltenkamp, J. Nordhause-Janz und B. Widmaier, eds., New Modes of Industrial Cooperation, Opladen: Leske & Budrich, pp. 95-109 (in German).
1990, “From Hierarchies towards Networks: Reorganizing Old Industrial Areas.” In: European Association for the Transfer of Technology, Innovation and Industrial Information, ed., Enterprise, Innovation and 1992: Innovation Support Services in Europe, Luxemburg: TII, pp. 114-31.
1988, (with E. Matzner), “Perspectives for Regional Policy: From Micro-Economic Efficiency towards Macro-Economic Rationality.” In: Industriegewerkschaft Metall, ed., Towards a Responsible and Solidary Economy, Cologne: Bund-Verlag, pp. 61-77 (in German).
1988, “Flexible Specialization - A Strategy for Old Industrial Areas?” In: Austrian Working Group on Self-Reliant Regional Development, ed., The Awakening of the Periphery, Vienna: ÖAR, pp. 130-141 (in German).
since 4/2009 | Professor of Urban and Regional Economic Studies | HafenCity University
1998 - 2009 | Professor (C4) of Economic Geography | University of Bonn
1997 - 1998 | Professor (C3) of Local and Regional Development | University of Konstanz
1997 | Reader in Economic Geography | King’s College London, Department of Geography
1996 | Lecturer in Economic Geography | King’s College London, Department of Geography
1991-1995 | Senior Research Fellow | Science Center Berlin (WZB)
1986-1990 | Research Fellow | Science Center Berlin (WZB)
1987 | Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning (with distinction) | Technical University of Vienna
1980-1985 | Dipl. Engineer for Urban and Regional Planning (with distinction) | Technical University of Vienna
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