Welcome
to my Web place. I am a professor (now retired) in the
Department of Geography having taught courses on
location theories,
urban and regional economic and market area analysis and
general economic geography, as well as seminars on the
geography of organizational behavior and
the
information economy. For the past 40 years, I have been interested in
how corporate enterprises organize and communicate in space, and how such
organizational arrangements and communicative structures are affected by
and impact surrounding economic development at local and regional
levels.
Almost from the beginning, I have been part of what often has been
referred to as the
'Washington School of Economic Geography'
which, under
the leadership of
Morgan D. Thomas, has had a profound and lasting
influence on the development of industrial and corporate geography and the
academic discourse on regional economic development, technological
innovation and the information economy.