PurposeEuropean metropolises nowadays are struggling even more to attract highly mobile creative as well as knowledge‐based industries. In many European cities, the ongoing socio‐economic transformation of inner‐city brownfields enables metropolises to allocate new economies within these inner‐city spaces. The purpose of this paper is to observe impressive infrastructural projects, e.g. Stuttgart 21, Hamburg HafenCity – aiming at attracting and allocating knowledge and creative industries in the inner‐city for the purpose of strengthening its core.Design/methodology/approachTwo of these large empty inner‐city slots can be found in Berlin (Tempelhof) and in Graz (Reininghaus). The first one is a former airport in the inner‐city area of Berlin, the second one a former brewery located in the inner‐city of Graz, Austria. In this paper, these projects are analysed by focussing on governance and urban management approaches, which seek to accommodate creative and knowledge‐intensive industries as well as the adjacent creative knowledge milieus.FindingsThe paper analyses implications that can be derived from these two cases on the level of governance efforts seeking to overcome the organisational as well as the governance paradox, as it is described by scholars such as Grabher et al.Originality/valueThe paper is aiming at presenting new empirical as well as conceptual insights into how this paradox could be successfully dealt with in order to develop places for these targeted creative knowledge milieus in European metropolises.

Zusammenfassung: Mit fortschreitender Globalisierung und der Ergänzung der hie rarchischen Organisation durch netzwerkorientierte Steuerungsprinzipien wird ge lingende Kooperation im Team zunehmend zum Erfolgskriterium bei der Steuerung komplexer Unternehmen. Aus der Gruppendynamik und Organisationstheorie ist hin länglich bekannt, welche Stellgrößen in den Blick genommen werden müssen, um die Leistungsfähigkeit von Teams sicherzustellen. Der vorliegende Beitrag ergänzt diese Erkenntnisse durch seine Fokussierung auf die Besonderheiten multinationaler Teams und widmet sich der Frage, welche Erfolgsfaktoren insbesondere bei interkulturell zu sammengesetzten Teams zu beachten sind, um das dort vorhandene Potenzial tatsächlich zu heben. Auf der Basis ethnologischer und systemtheoretischer Überlegungen wird so wohl der gegenwärtige Umgang mit den vielfältigen Integrationsbemühungen (etwa im Rahmen der gängigen Programme zur Teamentwicklung) radikal in Frage gestellt als auch Alternativen dazu entwickelt. Anhand eines Beispiels aus der Praxis werden die Risiken und Chancen eines "differenzorientierten" Zugangs zu interkulturellen Koope rationen veranschaulicht.Abstract: With the ongoing globalization process and hierarchical organizations being extended by network oriented principles of governance, the effective team coopera tion becomes a success criterion for the management of complex organizations. Group dynamics and organizational theory establish well known variables that have to be ad dressed for assuring the performance and effectiveness of team work. This article ex tends these findings by a focused analysis of characteristics of multinational teams. Moreover, success criteria for uncovering the available potential within international teams are explored. On the basis of ethnologic and systemtheoretically considerations,

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