Gernot Grabher

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Gernot Grabher (born April 13, 1960 in Dornbirn ) is an Austrian economic geographer . Since 2009 he has been Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at HafenCity University Hamburg .

Life

Gernot Grabher studied spatial planning and spatial planning at the Vienna University of Technology ; In 1987 he did his doctorate there on restructuring processes in old industrial regions. From 1986 to 1995, Grabher worked at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Organization and Employment Department. After holding positions as a lecturer and reader in Economic Geography at King's College London , Grabher became professor for local and regional politics at the University of Konstanz in 1997 . This was followed in 1998 by the professorship for economic geography at the University of Bonn . Gernot Grabher has been Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at HafenCity University Hamburg since April 2009. Here he teaches the urban planning course . Gernot Grabher was visiting professor at Columbia University New York, the Santa Fe Institute , Cornell University and the Copenhagen Business School , among others . From 2007 to 2011 Grabher was editor of the journal Economic Geography.

research

Gernot Grabher's work deals with different aspects of the change towards the knowledge economy from a network analytical perspective . Grabher examined the role of company networks in the structural change of regions, the emergence of projects as an organizational form in the creative industries and their embedding in regional and organizational networks. More recently, Grabher has been concerned with the consequences of the Internet for the geography and organization of innovation processes.

Works (selection)

  • (with O. Ibert), Distance as Asett? Knowledge collaboration in hybrid virtual communities. In: Journal of Economic Geography 14 (1), 2014.
  • (with O. Ibert and S. Flohr) The Neglected King: Consumers in the New Knowledge Ecology of Innovation. In: Economic Geography 84 (3), 2008.
  • Trading Routes, Bypasses, and Risky Intersections: Mapping the Travels of 'Networks' between Economic Sociology and Economic Geography. In: Progress in Human Geography 30 (2), 2006.
  • Temporary Architectures of Learning: Knowledge Governance in Project Ecologies. In: Organization Studies 25 (9), 2004.
  • (with WW Powell), Networks. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (Critical Studies in Economic Institutions Series), 2004.
  • (with D. Stark), Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism: Legacies, Linkages, and Localities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • The Embedded Firm. On the Socioeconomics of Industrial Networks. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
  • Praise for waste. - Berlin: Ed. Sigma, 1994.
  • De-industrialization or neo-industrialization? - Berlin: Ed. Sigma, 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiebe, Burckhard; 1994: 25 years of the WZB: Type and location of research. Science Center Berlin for Social Research. P. 172.
  2. ↑ a b c d hcu-hamburg.de: HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU): Gernot Grabher  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hcu-hamburg.de   , Accessed October 16, 2011
  3. ↑ uni-konstanz.de: University of Konstanz - Research Report 1998 - Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed April 18, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-konstanz.de
  4. ↑ Economic Geography: Economic Geography / Editors , accessed October 15, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Grabher, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economic geographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn