About the Author

Dr. Susan M. Walcott is an emerita professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she taught economic geography and the geography of Asia. Her research focuses on competitive strategies of industrial clusters in the United States and China and the globalization of specific industries including the U.S. furniture industry, which she has published on in articles, book chapters, and contracts. Dr. Walcott has a PhD in geography from Indiana University.

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