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, April 30, 2024

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
2nd Organizing Creativity Paper Development Workshop
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

PHD COMPLETED
Urban Transformations of Former Industrial Neighborhoods: A Comparison of Savamala (Belgrade) and NDSM Wharf (Amsterdam)
Congratulations to Dragana Kostica on her successful defense of her PhD thesis​​​​​​​

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Tradition as Resource and Constraint for Strategic Action in the Digital Age
Gernot Grabher will deliver 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 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

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
B. Schiemer, E. Schüßler and G. Grabher contribute to Research in the Sociology of Organization Special Issue

NEW PUBLICATION
"Hägerstand online": Ein methodisches Konzept zur Analyse raumzeitlicher Trajektorien in Kollaborationen
A. Melchior, B. Schiemer and G. 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