Edward J Malecki
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward J Malecki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward J |
| FAMILY NAME | Malecki |
| SIGNATURE | MALECKI E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6815-7846 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 464 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems
This paper reviews the literature, concepts, and operationalizations of the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Despite some interest at the national level, entrepreneurship is understood to take place in localities or, at most, regions, drawing on local resources, institutions, and networks. Bibliometric evidence shows that usage of the term entrepreneurial ecosystem has overtaken other concepts, such as environments for entrepreneurship, whi…
Creating an Environment for Economic Growth: Creativity, Entrepreneurship or Human Capital
Scholars and policymakers interested in the growth and prosperity of regions have long recognized that talent and knowledge are fundamental. Yet the question is what types of talent are needed in a growing twenty-first-century economy: human capital, creativity and innovation, or entrepreneurship? The latter we define broadly to include any type of risk taking, and not only radical innovation. The literature does not clearly point to one factor a…
Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
The emergence of ethnic entrepreneurs in Seoul, South Korea: Globalisation From Below
In a globalising era, there have been many attempts to explain the processes of globalisation in urban studies. Beyond a global/world city hypothesis which mainly deals with macro-actors and top-down processes, this paper explores a grounded globalisation with the emergence of ethnic entrepreneurs who are rarely considered in global city research. We analyse business activities of Nigerian and Pakistani entrepreneurs within the district of Itaewo…
Economic Geography
Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development
Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why urban economies develop unequally. Storper identifies four contexts that shape urban economic de…
Global Information Society: Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility
Regional determinants of research and development institutions in India
The Geography of the Internet: Cities, Regions and Internet Infrastructure in Europe
The Geography of the Internet: Cities, Regions and Internet Infrastructure in Europe, Emmanouil Tranos, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2013). ix + 231 pp. £67.50 (hbk). ISBN 978 1 78195 336 5. The Inter
Handbook of Creative Cities
Handbook of Creative Cities, David Emanuel Andersson, Ake E. Andersson and Charlotta Mellander (Eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2011). ix + 555 pp. US$270.00. £160.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 1 84980 150 9
Making Tracks: Rail Networks in World Cities
Urban rail networks are a critical component of successful cities able to compete at a global level in the twenty-first century. They enhance a city's economic efficiency, quality of life, and image through their traditional role as provider of local mobility between home, work, and leisure, as well as their new role in supporting global mobility between airports, business districts, and other critical economic nodes as a strategy to attract high…
Regional Social Capital: Why it Matters
Malecki E. J. Regional social capital: why it matters, Regional Studies . Social capital refers to a culture of interaction among people, with productive economic outcomes. Social capital promotes regional learning both within a region and beyond, as it reinforces openness to the ideas of others. Regional cultures vary in the degree to which people -- individually and within their organizations -- trust and interact with one another, which is why…
Cartoon planet: Worlds of production and global production networks in the animation industry
As more animated films are produced, new “worlds of production” have emerged. The animation production system is distinct from film production, relying on different technologies and labor skills. Its globalization, therefore, has taken place differently, although both are structured by the global production networks of the media conglomerates. We present a framework for understanding the animation industry, its international division of labor, an…
Leapfrogging Into the Knowledge Economy: Assessing the Economic Development Strategies of the Arab Gulf States
The oil‐abundant, labour‐deficient countries of the Persian Gulf are investing their wealth towards creating economic development beyond oil. At a minimum, these strategies are attempts to craft the basis for sustainable economic development in a global economy that is more dependent on human capital and creativity than on natural resource wealth. This paper examines the Gulf development experience in light of theories on the diversification of n…
Global Knowledge and Creativity: New Challenges for Firms and Regions
Malecki E. J. Global knowledge and creativity: new challenges for firms and regions, Regional Studies. As companies locate research and development in more places, they seek to tap knowledge in new, open ways, to respond to diverse customer demand and short product life cycles. The globalization of research and development has added costs as firms communicate across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries, using both information and communi…
A Wired World: The Evolving Geography of Submarine Cables and the Shift to Asia
Submarine cables for telecommunications were an early catalyst of globalization and of transnational corporate production networks and they continue to facilitate global economic activity. This article describes increasing demand from Internet and mobile phones as well as new uses for cables, such as oil exploration and high-energy physics. We trace the history of submarine cables and their geography from their early days to the Internet era, and…
Organization versus Space: The Paradoxical Geographies of the Digital Economy
Digital technology has permeated most sectors of the economy, a result of continuous improvement and convergence in computers and telecommunications, and the Internet revolution. Unprecedented tradability of digitized information and information-intensiveness of business are driving the collapsing of value chains' organizational and spatial dimensions. We are witnessing a trend of vertical disintegration followed by complex re-arrangements that m…
Labor migration to world cities: With a research agenda for the Arab Gulf
We place labor flows, involving both highly skilled professionals and unskilled workers, within the framework of research on world cities. These flows are central to understanding the growth of world cities, particularly those whose growth is not primarily a result of advanced producer services. The context of Arab Gulf cities allows us to understand urban growth in the region as an outcome of wealth accumulation that stimulates large flows of sk…
Geography and Technology
Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, and J. W. Harrington, Jr., eds. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer. 2004. xxxii+ 613 pp., color plates, tables, figs., and index. $204.00 cloth (ISBN 1-4020-1857
Networking for Competitiveness
Jockeying for Position: What It Means and Why It Matters to Regional Development Policy When Places Compete
Malecki E. J. (2004) Jockeying for position: what it means and why it matters to regional development policy when places compete, Regional Studies38, 1093-1112. The realization that places compete for investment has expanded in recent years to encompass competition among places for the attention of migrants, tourists and media glow as well as investment. The most competitive places have been multidimensional in their attractions and have made the…
Growth, development, and innovation: A look backward and forward
Digital development in rural areas: Potentials and pitfalls
Knowledge Economies: Clusters, Learning, and Cooperative Advantage
Key Words: clustersknowledgelearningregional development
Knowledge, Industry, and Environment: Institutions and Innovation in Territorial Perspective
Roger Hayter and Richard Le Heron, eds. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. xvii and 420 pp., maps, diags., notes, and index. $89.95 cloth (ISBN 0-75463-052-8). A more international examination of some
Regional Social Capital: Why it Matters
Malecki E. J. Regional social capital: why it matters, Regional Studies . Social capital refers to a culture of interaction among people, with productive economic outcomes. Social capital promotes regional learning both within a region and beyond, as it reinforces openness to the ideas of others. Regional cultures vary in the degree to which people -- individually and within their organizations -- trust and interact with one another, which is why…
Jockeying for Position: What It Means and Why It Matters to Regional Development Policy When Places Compete
Malecki E. J. (2004) Jockeying for position: what it means and why it matters to regional development policy when places compete, Regional Studies38, 1093-1112. The realization that places compete for investment has expanded in recent years to encompass competition among places for the attention of migrants, tourists and media glow as well as investment. The most competitive places have been multidimensional in their attractions and have made the…
Corporate organization of R and D and the location of technological activities
Malecki E. J. (1980) Corporate organization of R and D and the location of technological activities, Reg. Studies 14, 219–234. This paper examines in detail the role of R and D and technological innovation in corporate strategy and structure, focusing on the manner in which R and D is treated in corporate spatial organizations. Organizational and locational aspects of large, multilocational firms are a manifestation of strategies and priorities c…
Digital development in rural areas: Potentials and pitfalls
Labor migration to world cities: With a research agenda for the Arab Gulf
We place labor flows, involving both highly skilled professionals and unskilled workers, within the framework of research on world cities. These flows are central to understanding the growth of world cities, particularly those whose growth is not primarily a result of advanced producer services. The context of Arab Gulf cities allows us to understand urban growth in the region as an outcome of wealth accumulation that stimulates large flows of sk…
The Economic Geography of the Internet's Infrastructure
The Internet is perhaps the defining technology of the emerging twenty‐first century. This article examines the infrastructure that comprises the “network of networks” and the spatial patterns that have emerged in the Internet's short existence. In its brief history, the Internet has manifested a tentative relationship with the urban hierarchy. This relationship is tracked over a four‐year period (1997 to 2000), during which firms made massive in…
Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems
This paper reviews the literature, concepts, and operationalizations of the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Despite some interest at the national level, entrepreneurship is understood to take place in localities or, at most, regions, drawing on local resources, institutions, and networks. Bibliometric evidence shows that usage of the term entrepreneurial ecosystem has overtaken other concepts, such as environments for entrepreneurship, whi…
R&D Facilities and Professional Labour: Labour Force Dynamics in High Technology
MALECKI E. J. and BRADBURY S. L. (1992) R&D facilities and professional labour: labour force dynamics in high technology, Reg. Studies 26, 123–136. The recent decentralization trend among research and development (R&D) laboratories has been attributed in part to firms following the locational preferences of their professional and technical workers to attractive areas. This paper examines the locational decisions and preferences of both R&D facili…
Global Knowledge and Creativity: New Challenges for Firms and Regions
Malecki E. J. Global knowledge and creativity: new challenges for firms and regions, Regional Studies. As companies locate research and development in more places, they seek to tap knowledge in new, open ways, to respond to diverse customer demand and short product life cycles. The globalization of research and development has added costs as firms communicate across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries, using both information and communi…
Hard and Soft Networks for Urban Competitiveness
The concept of competitiveness has grown significantly and it is now common for cities, regions and nations to assess, improve and publicise their competitive standing vis-à-vis other places. Yet it remains rather unclear just what competitiveness is when applied to places, which have objectives distinct from those of private-sector organisations, for whom share price and profitability serve as common metrics. The blurring of the responsibilities…
Federal R and D Spending in the United States of America: Some impacts on metropolitan economies
Malecki E. J. (1982) Federal R & D Spending in the Unitd States of America: some impacts on metropolitan economies, Reg. Studies 16, 19–35. Government R and D spending in the United States of America is highly concentrated in a small number of metropolitan areas. The effects of this spending are conceptualized in the context of technological change, and in terms of local income effects, agglomeration and spin-off processes, and inter-urban subcon…
Industrial Location and Corporate Organization in High Technology Industries
High technology industries are thought to be different from other industries in their locational orientation and in their degree of spin-offs and firm births. This study uses a highly detailed data
Growth and Change in the Analysis of Rank-Size Distributions: Empirical Findings
This paper analyzes the interrelationships of city size and growth in the American Midwest from 1940 to 1970 in an effort to synthesize the study of urban growth rates and of city-size distributions. Changes in the rank-size distribution are related to the differential growth of different-size urban places; some relationship in changes over time is evident, but there is little correspondence in static analyses. The urban system analyzed by variou…
Leapfrogging Into the Knowledge Economy: Assessing the Economic Development Strategies of the Arab Gulf States
The oil‐abundant, labour‐deficient countries of the Persian Gulf are investing their wealth towards creating economic development beyond oil. At a minimum, these strategies are attempts to craft the basis for sustainable economic development in a global economy that is more dependent on human capital and creativity than on natural resource wealth. This paper examines the Gulf development experience in light of theories on the diversification of n…
Locational Trends in R&D By Large U.S. Corporations, 1965-1977
The locational decisions of large corporations, especially those involving research and development (R and D) and its role in technological change, have considerable effects on regional economic development. The locations of R and D facilities of 330 firms in the United States, are found primarily in metropolitan areas. Industry-specific patterns are present, but overall, a small number of major urban areas are the locations of corporate R and D.…
Organization versus Space: The Paradoxical Geographies of the Digital Economy
Digital technology has permeated most sectors of the economy, a result of continuous improvement and convergence in computers and telecommunications, and the Internet revolution. Unprecedented tradability of digitized information and information-intensiveness of business are driving the collapsing of value chains' organizational and spatial dimensions. We are witnessing a trend of vertical disintegration followed by complex re-arrangements that m…
Linkages in High Technology Industries: A Florida Case Study
In this study, survey and interview data from four high technology industrial sectors in northern Florida are used to examine the effect of several establishment and organizational characteristics on the strength of intrastate linkages both of sophisticated and of routine inputs. The empirical findings show that local linkages of Florida's high technology industries are generally weak, and are most local mainly among small, locally owned, researc…
Making Tracks: Rail Networks in World Cities
Urban rail networks are a critical component of successful cities able to compete at a global level in the twenty-first century. They enhance a city's economic efficiency, quality of life, and image through their traditional role as provider of local mobility between home, work, and leisure, as well as their new role in supporting global mobility between airports, business districts, and other critical economic nodes as a strategy to attract high…
A Wired World: The Evolving Geography of Submarine Cables and the Shift to Asia
Submarine cables for telecommunications were an early catalyst of globalization and of transnational corporate production networks and they continue to facilitate global economic activity. This article describes increasing demand from Internet and mobile phones as well as new uses for cables, such as oil exploration and high-energy physics. We trace the history of submarine cables and their geography from their early days to the Internet era, and…
Agglomeration and Intra‐firm Linkage in R & D Location in the United States
Creating an Environment for Economic Growth: Creativity, Entrepreneurship or Human Capital
Scholars and policymakers interested in the growth and prosperity of regions have long recognized that talent and knowledge are fundamental. Yet the question is what types of talent are needed in a growing twenty-first-century economy: human capital, creativity and innovation, or entrepreneurship? The latter we define broadly to include any type of risk taking, and not only radical innovation. The literature does not clearly point to one factor a…
The Geography of the Internet: Cities, Regions and Internet Infrastructure in Europe
The Geography of the Internet: Cities, Regions and Internet Infrastructure in Europe, Emmanouil Tranos, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2013). ix + 231 pp. £67.50 (hbk). ISBN 978 1 78195 336 5. The Inter
Growth, development, and innovation: A look backward and forward
Public and Private Sector Interrelationships, Technological Change, and Regional Development
The Diffusion of Cable Television in Ohio: A Case Study of Diffusion Agency Location Patterns and Processes of the Polynuclear Type
Lawrence A. Brown, Edward J. Malecki, Susan R. Gross, Mohan N. Shrestha, R. Keith Semple, The Diffusion of Cable Television in Ohio: A Case Study of Diffusion Agency Location Patterns and Processes of the Polynuclear Type, Economic Geography, Vol. 50, No. 4, Studies in Spatial Diffusion Processes: I. Empirical (Oct., 1974), pp. 285-299
The Diffusion of Cable Television in Ohio: A Case Study of Diffusion Agency Location Patterns and Processes of the Polynuclear Type
Lawrence A. Brown, Edward J. Malecki, Susan R. Gross, Mohan N. Shrestha, R. Keith Semple, The Diffusion of Cable Television in Ohio: A Case Study of Diffusion Agency Location Patterns and Processes of the Polynuclear Type, Economic Geography, Vol. 50, No. 4, Studies in Spatial Diffusion Processes: I. Empirical (Oct., 1974), pp. 285-299
Firms and Innovation Diffusion: Examples from Banking
The diffusion of innovations used by firms themselves and those marketed to consumers are considered within a single framework based on the firm. This framework is represented by a general model which balances innovative and aggressive behavior, common to small firms, against the ability to bear the cost and risk of innovation adoption more common to large firms. A similar model for city-size diffusion patterns, based on the fact that large citie…
Agglomeration and Intra‐firm Linkage in R & D Location in the United States
Locational Trends in R&D By Large U.S. Corporations, 1965-1977
The locational decisions of large corporations, especially those involving research and development (R and D) and its role in technological change, have considerable effects on regional economic development. The locations of R and D facilities of 330 firms in the United States, are found primarily in metropolitan areas. Industry-specific patterns are present, but overall, a small number of major urban areas are the locations of corporate R and D.…
Corporate organization of R and D and the location of technological activities
Malecki E. J. (1980) Corporate organization of R and D and the location of technological activities, Reg. Studies 14, 219–234. This paper examines in detail the role of R and D and technological innovation in corporate strategy and structure, focusing on the manner in which R and D is treated in corporate spatial organizations. Organizational and locational aspects of large, multilocational firms are a manifestation of strategies and priorities c…
Growth and Change in the Analysis of Rank-Size Distributions: Empirical Findings
This paper analyzes the interrelationships of city size and growth in the American Midwest from 1940 to 1970 in an effort to synthesize the study of urban growth rates and of city-size distributions. Changes in the rank-size distribution are related to the differential growth of different-size urban places; some relationship in changes over time is evident, but there is little correspondence in static analyses. The urban system analyzed by variou…
Innovation Research and Public Policy
Public and Private Sector Interrelationships, Technological Change, and Regional Development
Public and private sector interrelationships, technological change, and regional development
Federal R and D Spending in the United States of America: Some impacts on metropolitan economies
Malecki E. J. (1982) Federal R & D Spending in the Unitd States of America: some impacts on metropolitan economies, Reg. Studies 16, 19–35. Government R and D spending in the United States of America is highly concentrated in a small number of metropolitan areas. The effects of this spending are conceptualized in the context of technological change, and in terms of local income effects, agglomeration and spin-off processes, and inter-urban subcon…
Industrial Geography: Introduction to the Special Issue
Industrial geography has expanded beyond manufacturing, and various systems frameworks have been proposed to organize research. Industrial systems, urban and regional systems, and the world system all have some degree of applicability as explanatory devices. The papers in this issue of Environment and Planning A are introduced within the context of recent research in industrial geography
Industrial Location and Corporate Organization in High Technology Industries
High technology industries are thought to be different from other industries in their locational orientation and in their degree of spin-offs and firm births. This study uses a highly detailed data
Linkages in High Technology Industries: A Florida Case Study
In this study, survey and interview data from four high technology industrial sectors in northern Florida are used to examine the effect of several establishment and organizational characteristics on the strength of intrastate linkages both of sophisticated and of routine inputs. The empirical findings show that local linkages of Florida's high technology industries are generally weak, and are most local mainly among small, locally owned, researc…
The R&D location decision of the firm and “creative” regions—a survey
"Comments on Scott's "High Technology Industry and Territorial Development: The Rise of the Orange County Complex, 1955-1984
The Challenge of Rural Development
Services and Uneven Development
This book surveys the development of service industries in Britain from a geographical perspective, assessing their contribution to other sectors of the economy. The location of new service industries is described and explained, with an analysis of the effect of locational changes on employment opportunities and patterns. The contributors consider the economic role of private sector producer services and provide a British view of issues to comple…
Unions and Communities Under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor , Gordon L. Clark; The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and the Urban-Regio…
(1991). Unions and Communities Under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor, Gordon L. Clark; The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and the Urban-Regional Process, Manuel Castells. Urban Geography: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 89-92
Disparities in Technological Development: Comments on the Paper by Caraça
R&D Facilities and Professional Labour: Labour Force Dynamics in High Technology
MALECKI E. J. and BRADBURY S. L. (1992) R&D facilities and professional labour: labour force dynamics in high technology, Reg. Studies 26, 123–136. The recent decentralization trend among research and development (R&D) laboratories has been attributed in part to firms following the locational preferences of their professional and technical workers to attractive areas. This paper examines the locational decisions and preferences of both R&D facili…
Collapsing Space and Time: Geographic Aspects of Communication and Information
Network Activities, Information and Competitiveness in Small Firms
Flexible manufacturing networks are currently receiving much attention as a competitive strategy, especially in small cities and rural areas, where a large amount of manufacturing occurs in the USA. Examples of successful manufacturing networks in Europe have stimulated policy makers elsewhere to consider development of flexibly organized networks of small and medium sized manufacturers. Networks may enable manufactures to respond to rapidly chan…
The Production of Space Henri Lefebvre . Translated by D. Nicholson-Smith; Tokyo: The Changing Profile of an Urban Giant . Roman Cybriwsky, G. K. Hall, and Co.; Cities of the 21st Century: New Technol…
Technology and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Local, Regional, and National Change
Teaching introductory economic geography: One American perspective
This paper describes experiences in teaching introductory economic geography in a large American university. Selection of a textbook, preparation to teach a course, monitoring the business press for current illustrations of salient points, supplemental readings and course evaluation procedures are discussed. It is argued that an emphasis on ‘real‐world’ examples as opposed to theory helps to spark student interest in the economic geography of our…
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