Cool Projects, Boring Institutions: Temporary Collaboration in Social Context

By Gernot Grabher. 2002

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Substitution or Overlap? The Relations between Geographical and Non-spatial Proximity Dimensions in Collaborative Innovation Projects (2015, positive): “Following recent interest in projects, as aflexible and adaptive organizational practice (GRABHER, 2002b), themain themeof the interviewswas the firms’most recently completed product development projects with external partners.”
Green energy clusters and socio-technical transitions: analysis of a sustainable energy cluster for regional economic development in Central Massachusetts, USA (2012, background): “Analysts of cluster initiatives have also noted the importance of ‘buzz,’ the source of collective learning that occurs as actors are surrounded by a milieu of rumors, impressions, recommendations, and strategic information (Grabher 2002; Bathelt et al. 2004).”
Managing the Institutional Context for Projects (2011, background): “While much research in the area still remains ingrained with the issues of matrix structures (Davis & Lawrence, 1977), more creative forms of structuring are now offering managers new opportunities—for instance, “programmification” (Maylor, Brady, CookeDavies, & Hodgson, 2006), or networks (Grabher,”
Multiple Team Membership: a Theoretical Model of its Effects on Productivity and Learning for Individuals and Teams (2011, background): “Contextual variety also can stimulate learning processes themselves, especially when people’s multiple teams expose them to more “cool” (Grabher, 2002) or motivating work (Hackman, Pearce, & Wolfe, 1978), involving knowledge or skills that are perceived to be more valued or desirable.”
Temporary Clusters and Knowledge Creation: The Effects of International Trade Fairs, Conventions and Other Professional Gatherings (2004, background): “The firms in the cluster do not need to actively solicit information, since they are surrounded by a tight web of gossip, opinions, recommendations, judgements and interpretations (Grabher 2002a).”
Introduction to paradoxes of creativity: managerial and organizational challenges in the cultural economy (2007, background): “…resurgence of this field can be observed by the growing number of highly regarded academic journals that have provided special issues devoted to cultural industries and their creative practices (See Grabher, 2002; Jones, Anand, & Alvarez, 2005; Jones & Thornton, 2005; Lampel et al., 2000, 2006).”
Cultural economic geography and a relational and microspace approach to trusts, rationalities, networks, and change in collaborative workplaces (2003, background): “Similarly, a cultural studies approach to learning in production systems entails thinking about circuits of power, specifically about becoming an insider ( Grabher, 2002b, p. 209 ), in contrast to the view that learning is about acquiring knowledge (e.g.”
Project Work in Context: Regulatory Change and the New Geography of Media (2002, background): “…an important turn, beginning to focus on the ``interdependencies between projects and the firms, networks, localities and institutions that feed vital sources of information, legitimization, reputation and trust'' and enable the organization of project-based production (Grabher, 2002, page 206).”
International Trade Fairs and Global Buzz, Part I: Ecology of Global Buzz (2010, background): “…work, economic geographers have emphasized the importance of temporary face-to-face (F2F) contact in processes of knowledge creation and dissemination (e.g. Amin & Cohendet, 1999; Maskell & Malmberg, 1999; Grabher, 2002; Norcliffe & Rendace, 2003; Maskell et al., 2004; Storper & Venables, 2004).”
(How) Do (Firms in) Clusters Create Knowledge? (2005, background): “Evidence of strong supplier–buyer and sub-contracting transactions have, however, been found in ‘‘cultural industry’’ clusters and especially in industries with a high degree of project-based working (Storper and Christopherson, 1987; Grabher, 2002a, b).”
Knowledge Dynamics in Localized Communities: Coworking Spaces as Microclusters (2013, background): “Cluster configurations are characterized by the local circulation of information and knowledge that are shared by all the co-located actors and that has been referred as buzz (Storper & Venables 2004), local broadcasting (Owen-Smith & Powell 2004) or noise (Grabher 2002).”
Knowledge Networks and Careers: Academic Scientists in Industry-University Links (2007, positive): “Grabher (2002) argues that ‘cool projects require boring institutions’ because the temporary nature of the former requires the stability of the latter to provide a stable context for trust building and effective learning.”
Contextualising Regional Innovation Systems in a Globalising Learning Economy: On Knowledge Bases and Institutional Frameworks (2005, methodology): “( Grabher, 2002 )). This was done in a research proposal for EU’s 5th and 6th Frame Programs.”