Dr Megan Blake

Refereed Journals in print

  • Mellor, J.C.L., Blake, M.K. and Crane, L. (2010). When I'm Doing a Dinner Party I Don't Go for the Tesco Cheeses; Gendered Class Distinctions, Friendship and Home Entertaining. Food, Culture and Society, 13(1), 115-134.
    doi:10.2752/175174410X12549021368180
  • Hanson, S. and Blake, M.K. (2008). Gender and Entrepreneurial Networks. Regional Studies
    doi:10.1080/00343400802251452
  • Blake, M.K. (2007). Formality and Friendship: Research ethics review and Participatory Action Research. ACME, 6(3), 411-421.
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  • Blake, M.K. (2006). Gendered Lending: Institutions, perceptions, and women's access to business financing. Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 8(2), 183-201.
    doi:10.1080/13691060500433835
  • Blake, M.K. and Hanson, S. (2005). Rethinking Innovation: Context and Gender. Environment and Planning A, 37(4), 681-701.
    doi:10.1068/a3710
  • Bailey, A.J., Blake, M.K., and Cooke, T.J. (2004). Migration, Care and the Linked Lives of dual-earner households. Environment and Planning A 36(9), 1617-1632.
    doi:10.1068/a36198
  • Bailey, A.J., Sargent, J.D. and Blake, M.K. (1998). A tale of two counties: Childhood lead poisoning, industrialization, and abatement in New England. Economic Geography, 74 (extra issue), 96-111.
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  • Sargent, J.D., Bailey, A.J., Simon, P., Blake, M.K., and Dalton, M.A. (1997). Census Tract Analysis of Lead Exposure in Rhode Island Children. Environmental Research, 74, 159-168.
    doi:dx.doi.org/10.1006/enrs.1997.3755
  • Knudsen, D.C., Jacobs, F.R., Conway, D. and Blake, M.K. (1994). A Survey of Group Technology Adoption in the American Midwest. Growth and Change, 25, 183-205.
    doi:dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2257.1994.tb00969.x

Books

  • Blake, M.K. (2008). It takes a village: women's entrepreneurship, resource networks and place. VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken.

Book chapters

  • Blake, M.K., Mellor, J.C.L., Crane, L. and Osz, B. (2009). Eating in time; Eating up time. In: Jackson, P.A. (ed.) Changing Families, Changing Food. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. 187-205. ISBN 9780230223981
  • Blake, M.K. (2008). Finding alterity in innovation or finding innovation in alterity? In: Fuller, D., Jonas, A. and Lee, R. (eds.) Alternative Economic and Political Spaces, Ashgate, Oxford.
  • Hanson, S. and Blake, M.K. (2004). Changing the gender of entrepreneurship. In: Nelson, L. and Seager, J. (eds.) The Companion to Feminist Geography, Blackwell, Oxford. 179-193.
  • Knudsen, D.C., and Blake, M.K. (1994). The Long Wave Theory of Economic Development and the American Midwest, 1947-86. In: Bonser, C.F. (ed.), Dimensions of Change: Decline and Restructuring in the American Midwest. Bloomington: Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University. 29-50.
  • Knudsen, D.C., Jacobs, F.R., Conway, D. and Blake, M.K. (1994). Flexible Manufacturing in the American Midwest. In: Bonser, C.F. (ed.), Dimensions of Change: Decline and Restructuring in the American Midwest. Bloomington: Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University. 233-248.
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