Research Focus on Digitization

Thonipara, A.; Sternberg, R.; Proeger, T.; Häfner, L. (2023): Digital divide, craft firms’ websites and urban-rural disparities—empirical evidence from a web-scraping. Review of Regional Research 43, 69-99.
DOI: 10.1007/s10037-022-00170-5

Rietmann, C. (2022): Corporate responsibility and place leadership in rural digitalization: the case of Hidden Champions. European Planning Studies. Advance online publication.
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2059345

Rietmann, C. (2021): Digital pioneers in the periphery? Toward a typology of rural Hidden Champions in times of digitalization. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship.
DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2021.1979909

Rietmann, C. (2021): Hidden Champions and their integration in rural regional innovation systems: Insights from Germany. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie.
DOI: 10.1515/zfw-2021-0024

Tuitjer, L.; Dirksmeier, P. (2021): Social media and perceived climate change efficacy: A European comparison. Digital Geography and Society 2, e100018.
DOI: 10.1016/j.diggeo.2021.100018

Zirbes, L.; Rietmann, C. (2021): Hidden Champions als zentrales Element der Stabilisierung ländlicher Regionen in Zeiten der Digitalisierung. Vorstellung eines Bundesforschungsvorhabens. HAL-Mitteilungen 60, 19-22.

Haefner, L.; Sternberg, R. (2020): Spatial implications of digitization: State of the field and research agenda. Geography Compass 14(12), e12544.
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12544

Thonipara, A.; Sternberg, R.; Proeger, T. & Haefner, L. (2020): Assessing the 'Digital Divide' and its Regional Determinants: Evidence from a Web-Scraping Analysis. ifh Working Papers (No. 25). Göttingen.

Sternberg, R. (2011): Regionale Verteilung der .de-Domains. In: Nationalatlas aktuell (elektronische Zeitschrift): http://aktuell.nationalatlas.de

Sternberg, R. (2005): On the Spatial Distribution of Domain Names in Germany – Empirical Evidence and Explanations. In: Feldhoff, T. and Flüchter, W. (Eds.): Shaping the Future of Metropolitan Regions in Japan and Germany: Governance, Institutions and Place in New Context. Duisburg: Universität Duisburg-Essen, pp. 37-49 (=Hohenheimer Beiträge zur Entrepreneurshipforschung und –praxis, Nr. 11).

Sternberg, R. (2004): Zur räumlichen Verteilung von Domainnamen in Deutschland – empirische Befunde und Erklärungen. In: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 148, S. 78-85.

Sternberg, R. (2003): Standorte der neuen Dienstleister – Erkenntnisse aus dem raum-zeitlichen Verteilungsmuster von Internet-Domainnamen in Deutschland. In: Bröcker, J. (Hg.): Globale Kommunikation und lokales Handeln: Herausforderungen und Chancen. Heidenheim: Stadt Heidenheim an der Brenz, Kulturbüro, S. 113-134. (=Heidenheimer Schriften zur Regionalwissenschaft, 16).

Sternberg, R.; Krymalowski, M. (2002): Internet Domains and the Innovativeness of Cit-ies/Regions – Evidence from Germany and Munich. In: European Planning Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 251-274.

Sternberg, R.: (2001): Internet Domains and the Innovativeness of Cities/regions – Evidence from Germany and Munich. In: J. Simmie (Ed.): Innovation and Competitive Cities in the Global Economy. Proceedings of the International Research Workshop, Worcester College Oxford, 28-30 march, 2001. Oxford (School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University, Working Paper No. 191).

Sternberg, R. (1999): New Media Policies and Regional Development in Japan.,  In: H.-J. Braczyk, G. Fuchs u. H.-G. Wolf (Hrsg.): Multimedia and Regional Economic Restructuring. London: Routledge, pp. 346-375.