Research: Location Intelligence, Business Strategy, and Entrepreneurship

My curriculum vitae, my peer-reviewed publication record, my Google Scholar profile, my Microsoft Academic page, my conference presentation record, and my UNT faculty profile reflect my business geography research interests. The quality of my scholarship has been recognized by the Business Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, who presented me with their Distinguished Scholar Award in 2018.

​Beyond attention to definition of the emerging location intelligence field, my research falls in two broad categories:

1. Metropolitan Corporate Development and Entrepreneurship
2. Markets, Services, and Urban and Regional Change
Other Key Elements of My Research Program

My external support: Below is a summary of my funded requests for external funding and donor support.
Conference presentations: I regularly present at a number of prominent conferences. Here is an archive of selected conference presentations from the last few years.

Research collaborations: I am collaborating on investigations and curriculum development initiatives with an international network of faculty and industry experts who share my broad interests in geography, businesses, and cities. I am excited about the work I am developing in partnership with UNT's Economics Research Group. Another emerging collaboration I am pleased to participate in is with colleagues in the UNT College of Merchandising, Hospitality, and Tourism (CMHT); our interests focus on the intersection of location analytics and merchandising. In cooperation with all of these groups, I am always interested in discussing further research opportunities with public and private sector researchers.  I welcome inquiries from students who wish to engage in graduate studies related to any of my study fields; I also welcome expressions of collaboration interest from business geography academics and practitioners.

Interviews and other media: I've had the pleasure of having a few of my interview/lecture opportunities recorded over the years.
  • Here is a 2015 interview I did with Linda Peters for inclusion in Esri's Location Advantage MOOC. The interview focuses on the reasons why businesses should include geography in their planning, and why students should consider business geography as a career. Here is a transcript of the interview.
  • I appeared in a 2012 news report on TSTV, a Shandong Province, China television channel. In the report, TSTV covered a retail geography talk I gave at the University of Jinan. The report is in Chinese, but it includes a few comments from me in English.
  • Here is a 2009 podcast I did with the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, where I discuss some of my research into the geography of rapidly-growing businesses in Canada.

Here is a Google Scholar graph tracking my research publication citations per year, current as of December 2017:
Note: 2005 marked the beginning of my tenure-track employment record.

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