
 
                
        
    
PHD COMPLETED
 Negotiating change: A comparative examination of German traffic experiments
 Congratulations to Melis Günay for the successful defense of her dissertation
 
                
        
    
TOP RESEARCH RANKING
 Elsevier and Standford University Data Base
 Gernot Grabher is again among the TOP 2% Scientists worldwide in his field 
 
                
        
    
BEST PAPER AWARD
 Abolish, accept, apply: Coping with ignorance in project ecologies
 Paper by Joachim Thiel and Gernot Grabher selected Best Paper 2024 of the Project Management Journal
 
                
        
    
PHD COMPLETED
 The (re)imagination of urban biodiversity. How nature-based solutions shape urban planning discourses, practices, and relations in Germany and Italy
 Congratulations to Alessandro Arlati for the successful defense of his dissertation
 
                
        
    
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
 Sessions on geographies of innovation, digital platforms and dissociation 
 Gernot Grabher and Joachim Thiel contribute to the GCEG Clark University, 04 - 08 June 2025
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 The disruption delusion: Machines, networks, and the platformization of industrial production
 Gernot Grabher contributes to Sociologica
 
                
        
    
CALL FOR PAPERS
 At the edge of innovation: Navigating the centre-periphery tension
 Gernot Grabher co-organizes workshop at Hong Kong University, 15 - 16 December 2025
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Gesellschaftliche Transformation durch Großprojekte
 Joachim Thiel contributes to volume of the Vienna Institute for European Ethnology
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Conflicts in urban future-making
 Joachim Thiel contributes to first volume of the DFG-Research Training Group‘s book series
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Labore und Legitimation: Auf dem Weg zur experimentellen Stadt?
 Joachim Thiel and Gernot Grabher contribute to edited volume on current urban sociologies
 
                
        
    
TOP RESEARCH RANKING
 Elsevier and Standford University Data Base
 Gernot Grabher is among the top 2% of the most cited researchers worldwide in his field
 
                
        
    
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
 When the winner can’t take all. The platformization and assetization of industrial production
 Gernot Grabher delivers keynote to the SCANCOR 2024 PhD Workshop on Institutional Analysis
 
                
        
    
PUBLIC LECTURE
 Socioeconomic Research Seminar
 Vienna University of Economics and Business, 30 April 2024
 
                
        
    
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
 2nd Organizing Creativity Paper Development Workshop
 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 27-28 May 2024
 
                
        
    
PHD COMPLETED
 Urban transformations of former industrial neighborhoods: A comparison of Savamala (Belgrade) and NDSM Wharf (Amsterdam)
 Congratulations to Dragana Kostica on the successful defense of her PhD thesis
 
                
        
    
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
 Tradition as resource and constraint for strategic action in the digital age
 Gernot Grabher delivers keynote at international conference, Matera, 15-16 December 2023
 
                
        
    
CALL FOR PAPERS
 2nd Organizing Creativity Paper Development Workshop
 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Abolish, accept, apply: Coping with ignorance in project ecologies
 Joachim Thiel and Gernot Grabher contribute to the Project Management Journal
 
                
        
    
PHD COMPLETED
 Die Stadt als globale Fabrik. Weltweite Netzwerke und gebaute Räume der Bekleidungsproduktion in Istanbul
 Congratulations to Anke Hagemann on the Summa Cum Laude for her PhD thesis
 
                
        
    
FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
 Conceiving cities, understanding interdisciplinarity
 HafenCity University Hamburg, 13-14 February 2023
 
                
        
    
PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
 This is not a test! Testing after preparedness
 David Stark (Columbia University) explores the proliferation of tests in society
 
                
        
    
PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES
 Constructing urgencies, inventing futures
 Hosted by the DFG-Research Training Group Urban Future-Making
 
                
        
    
CALL FOR PAPERS
 1st Organizing Creativity Paper Development Workshop
 Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, 12-13 May 2023
 
                
        
    
PHD COMPLETED
 Civil society involvement in smart cities - Citizen participation or user co-creation?
 Congratulations to Filipe Mello Rose on the Summa Cum Laude for his PhD thesis
 
                
        
    
CONFERENCE PROGRAM 
 From disruption to domination: Trajectories and geographies of platformization 
 Gernot Grabher hosts Special Session at GCEG (with Koen Frenken, Utrecht University) 
 
                
        
    
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
 Experimenting the city: Between incremental projectification and urban transformation
 Gernot Grabher hosts Special Session at GCEG (with Lars Coenen, HVL Bergen & Uni. of Oslo)
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Selective inclusion: Civil society involvement in the smart city ecology of Amsterdam
 Filipe Mello Rose, Joachim Thiel and Gernot Grabher contribute to EURS
 
                
        
    
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
 Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scales
 Doctoral Positions and Post-Doctoral Positions in DFG-Research Training Group
 
                
        
    
NEW RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP
 Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scales
 DFG approves Research Training Group with Gernot Grabher and Joachim Thiel
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
The unexpected persistence of non-corporate platforms: The role of local and network embeddedness
Filipe Mello Rose contributes to Digital Geography and Society
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
How large-scale projects drive novelty in the construction industry
Constructing Innovation final book project published by Jovis
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
Star architecture and the geographies of innovation across the construction supply chain
Johannes Dreher and Joachim Thiel contribute to European Planning Studies
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Activity types, thematic domains, and stakeholder constellations
 Filipe Mello Rose contributes to European Planning Studies
 
                
        
    
RESEARCH RANKING
 ZitArt 2020 ranking of economic geographers in German-speaking area
 Gernot Grabher most cited economic geographer (since 2006)
 
                
        
    
PHD COMPLETED
Negative valuations as indispensable impulse in creative processes
Congratulations to Alice Melchior on the successful defense of her PhD thesis
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
Enclosure 4.0.: Seizing data, selling predictions, scaling platforms.
Gernot Grabher contributes to Sociologica Theme Issue
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
Symposium on Grabher and König’s Polanyian framing of the platform economy. 
Comments by Caliskan; Kenney, Zysman and Bearson et al., Lee and Watkins, and Pais and Provasi
 
                
        
    
NEW PROJECT
The temporal structuring of creative processes: Organizing creativity through (dis)entrainment 
DFG approves funding for research collaboration of Gernot Grabher with Elke Schüßler (JKU Linz) and Jörg Sydow (FU Berlin)
 
                
        
    
APPOINTMENT
Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE)
Gernot Grabher has been nominated Member of the Selection Committee for the Alice Amsden Award 
 
                
        
    
COURSE EVALUATION
Ökonomie der Stadt II: Strukturen und Akteure 
Positive assessment of digital-only lecture and feedback sessions
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
Disruption, embedded. A Polaynian framing of the platform economy
Gernot Grabher and Jonas König contribute to Sociologica
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
Uber-production. From global networks to digital platforms.
Gernot Grabher and Erwin van Tuijl contribute to Environment and Planning A
 
                
        
    
RECOGNITION
Regional Studies Association (RSA) 
Gernot Grabher has been recognized as a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (FeRSA) 
 
                
        
    
PHOTO GALLERY
/Edge/ Creation and Valuation of Novelty at the Margins
Glimpses of the successful conference
 
                
        
    
PODCAST 
How smart do we want to live in the future?
Gernot Grabher discusses the ambiguities of smart city projects 
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Collaborative innovation online: Entanglements of making content, skills, and community on a songwriting platform
 Benjamin Schiemer, Elke Schüßler and Gernot Grabher contribute to Research in the Sociology of Organization Special Issue
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 "Hägerstand online": Ein methodisches Konzept zur Analyse raumzeitlicher Trajektorien in Kollaborationen
 Alice Melchior, Benjamin Schiemer and Gernot Grabher contribute to Raumforschung und Raumordnung
 
                
        
    
NEW PUBLICATION
 Moments of (De)Valuation. Confirmation and devaluation of ideas in creative processes 
 Alice Melchior contributes to the Organized Creativity Discussion Paper Series





 
             
             
             
             
             
            


