This study investigates variations in government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) market shares
among a sample of 426 nonmetropolitan counties in 8 census divisions. Conventional …

This study examines the innovativeness of Iowa community economic development director
change agents. Change agents such as economic development directors are employed by …

The growth of the service economy in advanced and developing economies has created
what are now being referred to as New Economic Landscapes. These landscapes are not …

Over the past years the commercial use of the global computer network Internet has steadily
increased. The main focus of the paper is on the potential spatial consequences of Internet …

Most communities in the Prairie provinces are small. Eighty percent of the more than 1,000
centres in the three Prairie provinces included in this region have fewer than 2,000 …

Changes in the economic structure of rural America have caused continuing concern about
the ability of rural areas to maintain an employment base and viable, dynamic economies …

The objective of this study is to reveal the limitations of the currently popular rural
development practices (muraokoshi) designed to oppose economic and social decline in …

Information technologies have been compared to railroads and automobiles in their
potential to influence the spatial distribution of jobs and people. Technological advances in …

My dissertation examines the Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change impacts of major
employers locating in small towns and rural areas both spatially and temporally at a regional …

The rise of the service sector and, more precisely, of advanced producer services (APS) is
associated with the growth of global cities (Knox and Taylor 1995; Sassen 2001). After thirty …