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Ed is currently Associate Editor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and is a member of the Editorial Board of Economic Geography, Geogafiska Annaler, Series B, Human Geography, Growth and Change, Regional Studies, International Regional Science Review, and the Review of Regional Studies. He also is a member of the Board of Editors of the Center for Urban Policy Research Press. He previously served terms on the editorial boards of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Environment and Planning A, The Professional Geographer, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, and Texas Business Review.
Edward J. Malecki and Bruno Moriset, The Digital Economy: Business Organization, Production Processes and Regional Developments, London: Routledge, 2007.
Edward J. Malecki and Pääivi Oinas, eds. Making Connections: Technological Learning and Regional Economic Change. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
Technology and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Local, Regional and National Competitiveness, 2nd edition (London and Boston: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997).
Sergio Conti, Edward J. Malecki and Païvi Oinas, eds. The Industrial Enterprise and Its Environment: Spatial Perspectives. Aldershot: Avebury, 1995.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“Geographical Environments for Entrepreneurship,” International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, in press.
“Cities and Regions Competing in the Global Economy: Networks, Knowledge and Local Development Policies,” Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 638-654.
Edward J. Malecki and Michael C. Ewers, “ Labor migration to world cities: with a research agenda for the Arab Gulf,” Progress in Human Geography, vol. 31, no. 4 (2007), pp. 467-484.
E. Malecki and G.-J. Hospers, “Knowledge and the Competitiveness of Places,” in R. Rutten and F. Boekema, eds. The Learning Region: Foundations, State of the Art, Future. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007, pp. 143-159.
“Science and Technology and Policies for Competitiveness in the 21st Century,”in R.A. Ajami and M.M. Bear, eds. The Global Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and Value Creation. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2007, pp. 15-40.
“Technology, Knowledge, and Jobs,” in Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Helen Lawton Smith, eds. Economic Geography: Past, Present, and Future. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 244-250.
“Cities in the Internet Age,” in B. Johansson, C. Karlsson and R.R. Stough (eds.) The Emerging Digital Economy: Entrepreneurship, Clusters and Policy. Berlin: Springer, 2006, pp. 215-237.
“Still on Top? Knowledge and Innovation Policy in the USA,” Europe Planning Studies, volume 13 (December 2005), pp. 1173-1192.
“Jockeying for Position: What It Means and Why It Matters to Regional Development Policy When Places Compete,” Regional Studies, vol. 38, no. 9 (December 2004), pp. 1101-1120.
Gordon Kingsley and Edward J. Malecki, “Networking for Competitiveness: The Role of Informal Linkages for Small Firms,” Small Business Economics, vol. 23, no. 1 (August 2004), pp. 71-84.
“Fiber Tracks: Explaining Investment in Fiber Optic Backbones,” Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol. 16, no. 1 (January 2004), pp. 21-39.
Paul C. Cheshire and Edward J. Malecki, “Growth, Development and Innovation: A Look Backward and Forward,” Papers in Regional Science, vol. 83, no. 1 (January 2004), pp. 249-267.
Zoltan J. Acs and Edward J. Malecki, “Entrepreneurship in Rural America: The Big Picture,” in M. Drabenstott, ed. Main Streets of Tomorrow: Growing and Financing Rural Entrepreneurs. Kansas City: Center for the Study of Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2003, pp. 21-29.
Edward J. Malecki and Carlton R. Boush, “Telecommunications Technology in the Southeastern United States: Urban and Rural Variation,” Growth and Change, vol. 34, no. 1 (Winter 2003), pp. 109-129.
“Digital Development in Rural Areas: Potentials and Pitfalls,” Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 19, no. 2 (April 2003), pp. 201-214.
Jennifer Evans-Cowley, Edward J. Malecki, and Angela McIntee, “Planning Responses to Telecom Hotels: What Accounts for Increased Regulation of Colocation Facilities?” Journal of Urban Technology, vol. 9, no. 3 (December 2002), pp. 1-18.
“The Economic Geography of the Internet’s Infrastructure,” Economic Geography, vol. 78, no. 4 (October 2002), pp. 399-424.
“Local Competition in Telecommunications in the United States: Supporting Conditions, Policies, and Impacts,” Annals of Regional Science, vol. 36, number 3 (September 2002), pp. 437-454.
Sean P. Gorman and Edward J. Malecki, “Fixed and Fluid: Stability and Change in the Geography of the Internet,” Telecommunications Policy, vol. 26, nos. 7-8 (August-September 2002), pp. 389-413.
“Regional Policy in the Internet Age: The Effects of Technological Change on Regional Development,” in B. Johansson, C. Karlsson, and R. Stough, eds. Regional Policies and Comparative Advantage. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2002, pp. 49-75.
“Hard and Soft Networks for Urban Competitiveness,” Urban Studies, vol. 39, nos. 5-6, 2002, pp. 929-945.
Päivi Oinas and Edward J. Malecki, “The Evolution of Technologies in Time and Space: from National and Regional to Spatial Innovation Systems,” International Regional Science Review, vol. 25, no. 1, January 2002, pp. 102-131.
“Economic Geography,” in N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 6: 4084-4089. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001.
“Going Digital in Rural America,” in M. Drabenstott, ed. Exploring Policy Options for a New Rural America. Kansas City: Center for the Study of Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2001, pp. 49-68.
“The Internet Age: Not the End of Geography,” in D. Felsenstein and M.J. Taylor, eds. Promoting Local Growth: Process, Practice and Policy. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 227-253.
Edward J. Malecki and Sean P. Gorman, “Maybe the Death of Distance, But Not the End of Geography: The Internet as a Network,” in T.R. Leinbach and S.D. Brunn, eds. Worlds of Electronic Commerce: Economic, Geographical and Social Dimensions. New York: John Wiley, 2001, pp. 87-105.
“Knowledge and Regional Competitiveness,” Erdkunde ,vol. 54, no. 4, 2000, pp. 334-351.
“Soft Variables in Regional Science,” Review of Regional Studies, vol. 30, no. 1 (Summer 2000), pp. 61-69.
S.P. Gorman and E.J. Malecki, “The Networks of the Internet: An Analysis of Provider Networks in the USA,” Telecommunications Policy, vol. 24, no. 2 (March 2000), pp. 113-134.
“Creating and Sustaining Competitiveness: Local Knowledge and Economic Geography,” in J.R. Bryson, P.W. Daniels, N. Henry, and J. Pollard, eds. Knowledge, Space, Economy. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 103-119.
“Network Models for Technology-Based Growth,” in Z. Acs, ed. Regional Innovation, Knowledge and Global Change. London: Pinter, 2000, pp. 187-204.
“Knowledge, Competence, and Regional Development,” Economics of Innovation and New Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, 1999, pp. 71-79.
E.J. Malecki and R.M. Poehling, “Extroverts and Introverts: Small Manufacturers and Their Information Sources,” Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol. 11, no. 3, 1999, pp. 247-268.
B.M. McDade and E.J. Malecki, “Entrepreneurial Networking: Industrial Estates in Ghana,” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol. 88, no. 3, 1997, pp. 262-272.
“Entrepreneurs, Networks, and Economic Development: A Review of Recent Research,” in J.A. Katz, ed. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, vol. 3. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997, pp. 57-118.
E.J. Malecki and D.M. Tootle, “Networks of Small Manufacturers in the USA: Creating Embeddedness,” in M. Taylor and S. Conti, eds. Interdependent and Uneven Development: Global-Local Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997, pp. 195-221.
