• Table for Seattle Area Organizations
• Resources for Local Organizational Studies
• Corporate Pages
• Counter-Corporate Sites
• Corporate Geography (Home)
• Organizations and Organizational Geography
• Documents and Guidelines on Corporate Behavior [mainly for multinational corporations]
• Internet Business & E-Commerce
• Pacific Northwest Economic Geography Resources
• Local Daily & Business Newspapers
• Video Clips

Examples for Topical Approaches to Local/Regional Organizations:

• "Best Cities" Surveys (The role of individual corporations/ organizations in such surveys; Criteria related to specific organizations)
• "Best Corporation" Surveys (Criteria; Impact on regions, etc.
• Car Sharing (Resources)
• Childcare support, Special childcare leaves, Gender issues
• Consumer protection policies (corporate)
• Corporate Relocation
• "Corporate Trauma": Pipeline Explosion (Olympic Pipeline)
• Education (Corporate influence in local higher education: Microsoft, Costco)
• Education in a High-Tech region (UW, Seattle School District, Lake Washington School District)
• Employment Practices (also Codes or Guidelines for Responsible Practices)
• Energy (power) Shortages in California and the PNW (Seattle City Light, Puget Sound Energy)
• Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Environmental Policies
• Fundraising
  • Geography of Venture Capital
  • Venture Philanthropy
  • Other Nonprofits Fundraising Activities
• Headquarter Locations / Cities with Fortune 500 headquarters etc. (Importance of headquarters for local/regional economic development)
• International Competition (Boeing - Airbus)
• Job Markets: Analysis of local job opportunities for economic geographers (and more generally)
  1. Analysis of classified ads
  2. Analysis of corporate job and career pages
• Roles of Local "Compacts" (Interjurisdictional, inter-organizational arrangements) (Metro, Sound Transit, Puget Sound Regional Council, etc.) and Regional Economic Development Organizations (Resources)
• Mergers (Local merger impacts... QFC, Eagle Hardware, Home Grocer etc.)
• Inter-Organizational Partnerships, Strategic Alliances (Group Health - Virginia Mason and many others)
• Philantropy (Gates Foundation etc.)
• Place of Work, Quality of Working Conditions (Immunex, Microsoft etc.)
• Planning: Corporate cooperation with local, regional or national planning authorities
• Plant Closure & Layoffs [Local impacts of plant closure...]
• Regional business cycles and the role of investment goods producing sectors (Boeing Co. or a local construction firm)
• R & D: Importance of research & development activities for regional economic development
• Corporate Linkages and Local Ownership of Professional Sports Teams (Resources (Sports Geography))
• Telecommuting [Employers' telecommuting strategies]
• Unionization (Geography of...): UAW on the University campus; Amazon.com
• Urban Economic (+/or) Retail Development
  • the Naval Shipyard and downtown Bremerton
  • Nordstrom and downtown Seattle
• WTO: Inter- & Intra-Corporate Trade and Trade Institutions & Barriers Resources (WTO & Seattle)