作者: Grete Rusten

Andrew Jones is Professor of Economic Geography and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at City University London, and was previously Head of Geography, Environment and Development at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of five previous books including Management Consultancy and Banking in an Era of Globalization (2003), The Economic Geography of the UK (edited with Neil Coe) and Globalization: Key Thinkers (2010) Patrik Ström is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the Centre for International Business Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was previously the Staffan Helmfrid Pro Futura Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden. Brita Hermelin is Professor of Human Geography and research lead at the Centre for Municipality studies at Linköping University, Sweden. She has recently been the research lead for a project at Stockholm University on globalization of services and is currently leading a research project at Linköping University on cross sector interactions for regional development. Grete Rusten is Professor of Economic Geography at University of Bergen, Norway. Her research focuses on firm strategies, location, industrial and regional development, the service economy, industrial design, innovations and the green economy.