James B. Pick

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James B. Pick is Professor of Business at University of Redlands. He has been at the University since 1991 and has been Department Chair of Management and Business (1995-1999), Faculty Assembly Chair in the School (2001-2004 and 20240-2025), Director of Center for Business GIS and Spatial Analysis (Founder 2011-2012; 2017-2019, 2020-2022, 2023-2024), and Founding Member of Academic Senate (2014-2015). His research areas are in management of information systems, human population and urban studies, GIS, and renewable energy. He is currently conducting research on spatial and socio-economic modeling of the worldwide and U.S. digital divides, location privacy, the sharing economy, business spatial strategies, and determinants of technology use and non-use in rural villages in India.

He is author or co-author of 182 journal articles, book chapters, and peer-reviewed papers in MIS, GIS, population, and urban studies, and author or co-author of fourteen books, including Spatial Business: Competing and Leading with Location Analytics (Esri Press, 2022), Geo-Business (Wiley, 2007), Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach (Pearson, 2012), and The Global Digital Divides (Springer, 2015).

Contact:

e-mail. james_pick@redlands.edu

phone. 949 697-7381

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Recent Books

Click for Renewable Energy: Problems and Prospects in Coachella Valley, California (Springer, 2017)

Click for Spatial Business: Competing and Leading with Location Analytics (Esri Press, 2022)

Click for The Global Digital Divides: Explaining Change (Springer, 2015)

Click for Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization (John Wiley and Sons, 2008)

Click for Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach, 2nd Edition, (Prentice Hall, 2012)

Courses

Click for Course Syllabus, Location Analytics and Decision Making, taught in Spring 2024