CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY
The CSCA is a “university based” research centre that has evolved as a cooperative partnership of government and over sixty-five private supporters whose common link is their active interest in enhancing research toward improving information, market opportunities, technology transfer, and competitiveness, in the commercial/retail sector of the Canadian Economy. All major constituencies within the sector—retailers, developers, real estate companies, financial institutions, consumer groups, government and labour—are represented and are involved in the research direction and overall activities of the Centre. CSCA also acts as a research node for Business, Health, and Social Policy thrust in the Geomatics for Informed Decisions (GEOIDE) Network of National Centres of Excellence and recently has received funding from the Ontario Research Development Challenge Fund to support the creation and analysis of strategic information.
Director: K. Jones (also co-holder of the Eaton/SSHRCC/NSERCC Chair in the Management of Technological Change in Retailing)
K. Doddridge (Manager Client/Membership Services)
Research Projects Staff: Professor of Distinction: M. Yeates
Senior Research Fellow: J. Simmons
Research Associates: W. Michalek, J. A. Hernandez, W. Evans, M. Doucet, S. Wang,
S. Kamikihara
GIS Analysts: M. Biasiotto, P. Barbiero
Inf. Systems Anaylst: K. T. Erguden
Research Analyst: J. Masih
