Dr Mark White
B.A. M.A. Ph.D

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Dr Mark White completed his Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 2002 and joined CISC as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Internationally Traded Services group at NUI Galway in October. His M.A. in Geography is from Syracuse University, New York and he received a B.A. in Geography from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. His Ph.D. dissertation examined the 'embeddedness' of software and financial services multinationals in Dublin, this was supported by the award of a National Science Foundation grant to undertake fieldwork in Dublin. Dr White is pursuing an interest in examining the decentralisation of software and financial services firms outside Dublin, and in exploring the oft-quote cultural connections between Ireland and the United States, especially with respect to their use in promoting inward investment in Ireland.

Research projects:

PRTLI_ITSREG: "The Potential for Regionalising Internationally Traded Services" (Participant) Details>>

Publications, presentations etc.:

Journal articles:

Grimes, S and White, M., The transition to internationally traded services in Ireland�s emergence as a �successful� European region, Environment and Planning A, 2005, 37, 2169-2188

Grimes, S. and White, M. "Globalising the Periphery: Ireland's Emergence as a 'Successful' European Region'." Environment & Planning A, entitled 'In Celebration of the Ordinary Region', 2003.

White, M. "Inward Investment and Firm Embeddedness: How Deeply Embedded Is Ireland's Multinational Software Sector." 2003.

White, M. "Inward Investment, Firm Embeddedness and Place." European Urban and Regional Studies, 2004, 11(3).

White, M. "Inward Investment, Firm Embeddedness and Place: An Assessment of Ireland's Multinational Software Sector." European Urban & Regional Studies, 2003.

White, M. "The Role of Dublins's International Financial Services Centre in Irish Regional Development." European Planning Studies, 2003.

White, M. 2003b. "Dublin's International Financial Services Centre come Onshore: Contributions to Economic Development and Questions of Sustainability." (submitted for publication)

White, M., 'Assessing the role of the International financial services centre in Irish regional development' European Planning Studies, 13(3), 2005, 387-405

Book chapters:

White, M., Grimes, S., 'Placing Ireland's transition to a knowledge economy within a global context' In Cooke, P., and Piccaluga, A., (eds) Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories, Edward Algar Publishers, 2004, 161-180

CISC Working papers:

Hoechtberger, K.; White, M. and Grimes, S. 'The Evolution of Multinational Computer Services Affiliates in Ireland,' CISC Working Paper No. 13 Details >>

White, M., 'Inward Investment, Firm Embeddedness and Place: An Assessment of Ireland's Multinational Software Sector', CISC Working Paper No. 1. Details >>

White, M.,'The Role of Dublin's International Financial Services Centre in Irish Regional Development', CISC Working Paper No. 3. Details >>

Reports, monographs, working papers etc:

White, M. "Dublin's International Financial Services Centre Come Onshore: Contributions to Economic Development and Questions of Sustainability." 2003.

White, M. "Inward Investment, Firm Embeddedness and Place: An Assessment of Ireland's Multinational Software Sector."

White, M. "The Role of Dublin's International Financial Services Centre in Irish Regional Development."

Conference papers/presentations:

Grimes, S and M. White, �Globalising the periphery: Ireland�s emergence as a �successful� European region, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, 3-5 September, 2003

White, M. and Grimes, S. "The Sustainability of Ireland's Knowledge Economy," Regional Studies Association International Conference 'Reinventing Regions in a Global Economy. Pisa, 2003.