Global Economic Crisis and Local Economic Development seeks routes for economic development in a post-crisis world. The roles of innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge infrastructures, public policies, business strategies and responses, as well as global contexts and positioning are explored as investigative themes which run throughout the collection as a whole. This text brings together a range of international disciplinary experts from economics, geography, history, business and management, politics and sociology. Its coverage is comparative and global, with contributions focusing on the U.S., Japan, China, and India, as well as European contexts and cases.
This book is of value both for the intrinsic quality of its individual studies and for the contrasts and comparisons enabled by the collection when viewed as a whole. It has an accessible but rigorous style, making it ideal for a range of users including academics, researchers and students who study economic development and regional development.
Jason Begley is Research Fellow at Centre for Business in Society, and is Head of the Motor Industry Observatory (MIO), Coventry University, UK.
Dan Coffey
is Graduate School Director and Senior Lecturer at Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK.Tom Donnelly
is Professor of Automotive Business at Coventry University Business School, Coventry University, UK.Carole Thornley
is Emeritus Professor of Employment and Public Policy at University of Keele, UK.