Articles and Chapters
[with Wilson, W.J.] (2008) There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America. In D.B. Grusky (Ed.), Social Stratification: Class, race, and gender in sociological perspective (3rd ed.) (pp 716–727). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
(2007) Research on Entrepreneurship, Culture and Law. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 28(4), 893-898.
(1998) Making the Adaptation Across Cultures and Societies: A report on an attempt to clone the Grameen Bank in southern Arkansas. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 3(1), 14-29.
[with Taylor D.G. & Peterson B.] (1986) Crime, Community Organization, and Causes of Neighborhood Decline. In R. Figlio, S. Hakim, & G. Rengert (Eds.), Metropolitan Criminal Patterns. (pp161–177) Monsey, NY: Willowtree Press.
[with Taub D.L.] Cutback Entrepreneurs. (1980) In S. Seymour (ed.), The Transformation of a Sacred Town: Bhubaneswar, India, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
[with Surgeon G., Lindholm S., Betts Otti P., & Bridges A.] (1977) Urban Voluntary Associations, Locality Based and Externally Induced. American Journal of Sociology, 83(2), 425-442.
Papers Presented
(2006, August). Bridging Theoretical Divides: Race, culture, and concentrated poverty in American cities, Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QB, Canada.
(1994, October). "The Southern Development Bancorporation Lessons Learned: The first five years. Paper presented at the American Agricultural Law Association Conference, Memphis, TN.
(1991, October). Differing Conceptions of Honor and Orientations Toward Work and Marriage Among Low-Income African-Americans and Mexican-Americans. Paper presented at the University of Chicago Urban Family Life Conference, Chicago, IL.
(1991) Published by Center for Urban Inequality, University of Chicago.
(1990) Nuance and Meaning in Community Development: Finding community and development. Community Development Research Center, Paper presented at the Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research.
(1990) Published in National Social Science Journal.
(1990, April). Community Integration and the Role of Institutional Actors. Paper presented at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
[with Grzywinski, R. & Reardon, E.] (1990, January). Capital and the Promotion of Entrepreneurship. Paper presented at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Conference on Enterprise and Employment Creation in Rural Areas, Paris, France.
Reports
[with Dunham, J.D. & Taylor G.] National Opinion Research Center. (1982). Safe and Secure Neighborhoods: Territoriality, Solidarity, and the Reduction of Crime. Chicago, IL.
[with Sander, S. & Bannor, J.] The Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies. Integration and Racial Change in Six Chicago Suburban Communities. Chicago, IL.