The primary focus of my policy research has been woven around four subtexts: urban land use and economic development, globalization, public agency behavior, and policy consequences (agency performance, socioeconomic equity and environmental quality). To date, this work has been reported in five books, over two dozen referred journal articles, and numerous professional conference presentations. In the early period (1970-1985), my principal work was on corporate-inspired development of rural resort/recreation communities, and is best found in the book, Land Use Conflicts (University of Illinois Press, 1982) which examined alternative approaches to government policymaking in dealing with the consequences of rural transformations. In the mid 1980s, my research shifted to globalization and maritime trade. Its principal focus was on public entrepreneurial behavior during the "container revolution" at American seaports. The research is comprehensively reported in the book, Strategic Design and Organizational Change (University of Alabama Press, 1988). In the 1990s, my research interests shifted to urban infrastructure policy with a focus on regional public transit agencies. The research is found in the book, Social Class, Politics and Urban Markets (Stanford University Press, 2002), which examines agency policy outcomes and their consequences for different regional constituencies. It received the 2003 best book in public policy from the Academy of Management. My work since 2003 is on globalization and its value in differentiating American cities. The research is multi-faceted. First, given the inadequacy of "global city" definitions, the research has constructed a theory-driven profile of 7 dimensions to empirically discern global from less-global cities. Work on this has been reported internationally at conferences and is published in the January, 2008 issue of Urban Studies. Second, in work underway, the composite is being used both as a dependent variable dealing with socioeconomic and governmental antecedents of the global city and as an independent variable looking at global-city consequences (i.e., socioeconomic polarization, traffic congestion, environmental sustainability, culture and lifestyle).
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISE
Strategy And Structure: Reconceiving The Relationship, JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT (1990)
Discussions have drawn attention to the relationship between strategy and structure for much of the...
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SPANNING POLICY SILOS IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: WHEN GLOBAL CITIES ARE COASTAL CITIES TOO, 2009 MEETING OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, TORONTO (2009)
A MULTIPLE-PERSPECTIVES CONSTRUCT OF THE AMERICAN GLOBAL CITY, URBAN STUDIES (2008)
PAPER ARGUES AND TESTS THE PROPOSITION THAT THE GLOBAL CITY IS BEST DESCRIBED AND ANALYZED...
CHAPTER 10: UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS POLITICS AND POLICY OUTCOMES: DOES CLASS IDENTITY MATTER?, THE BREAKDOWN OF CLASS POLITICS: A DEBATE ON POST-INDUSTRIAL STRATIFICATION (2001)
This chapter in Clark and lipset's book on class in American politics resulted from a...
INSTITUTIONALISM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL EXCHANGE, ADMINISTRATION-CENTERED BEHAVIOR, AND POLICY OUTCOMES IN URBAN AGENCIES, JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY (1998)
This article inquires about the sufficiency of institutional exchange theory in explaining the impacts of...