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Patrik Ström
Senior Lecturer
Department of Business AdministrationAbout Patrik Ström
Patrik Ström is Associate Professor of Economic Geography, Centre for International Business Studies, Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg. Ström is currently the Head of Department at the Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Roskilde University and an Econ. Dr. in Economic Geography from the University of Gothenburg. His research has focused on the internationalization and competitiveness of the knowledge-intensive service industry in Europe and Asia. Ström was president of the European Association for Research on Services (RESER) from 2012-2018. Additionally, he is active as an expert for the private and public sectors on issues of service industry growth. Lately he was also member of the EU Commission High Level Group on Business Services, where he chaired the working group on Internationalization of Services.
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Coda: Future directions and challenges for research into the green
economy
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström
Research Handbook on the Green Economy - 2024 -
Introduction: Conceptualising research into the green
economy
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström
Research Handbook on the Green Economy - 2024 -
Green
services
Patrik Ström
Research Handbook on the Green Economy - 2024 -
Research handbook on the green
economy
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström
2024 -
Services and environment
(greening)
Brita Hermelin, Patrik Ström
Elgar Encyclopedia of Services - 2023 -
Digitalization and green economy transition: Smart Cities and Society
5.0
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström, Peter Nandor Popovics
The 39th EAMSA2023 conference - 2023 -
The Abe
Legacy
Richard Nakamura, Wrenn Yennie Lindgren, Patrik Ström
2022 -
Japanese Economic Engagement With the EU: Geopolitics Meets
Business
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström, Claes G. Alvstam
Journal of Applied Business and Economics - 2022 -
The EU/Japan EPA – taking stock and looking
ahead
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Sweden and Japan - 100 days with the new Suga
government
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström, Marie Söderberg, Åsa Malmsten Rognes
EIJS Policy Brief - 2021 -
Japan – the aftermath of the
Olympics
Patrik Ström, Richard Nakamura, Åsa Malmström Rognes
EIJS Policy Brief - 2021 -
Japanese Business Reinvention in Europe: the case of
Sweden
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström, Claes G. Alvstam
Academy of International Business, AIB - 2021 -
Japanese Business Reinvention in Europe: The case of
Sweden
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström, Claes G. Alvstam
Association of Japanese Business Studies, AJBS - 2021 -
100 dagar med ett ett nytt Japan - så påverkar landets problem
Sverige.
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström, Marie Söderberg, Åsa Malmström Rognes
Fokus - 2021 -
Closing the Digital Entrepreneurship Gap the Case of Returnee Entrepreneurs in
Morocco
Robert Wentrup, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies - 2020 -
Uberization in Paris - the issue of trust between a digital platform and digital
workers
Robert Wentrup, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Critical Perspectives on International Business - 2019 -
Service Markets: Digital Business Models and International
Expansion
Robert Wentrup, Patrik Ström
Digital Business Models Driving Transformation and Innovation - 2019 -
Bridging the conceptual divide on international knowledge-intensive services: The 4C
framework
Kristin Brandl, Peter Örberg Jensen, Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström
European International Business Academy 2019 - 2019 -
Service economy integration in Latin America – international connection and value chain
upgrading
Andew Jones, Patrik Ström
Proceedings of the European Association for Research on Services (RESER) - 2019 -
Asian varieties of service
capitalism?
A. Jones, Patrik Ström
Geoforum - 2018 -
Chinese foreign acquisitions aimed for strategic asset-creation and innovation upgrading: The case of Geely and Volvo
Cars
Ramsin Yakob, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Technovation - 2018 -
Differentiation in digital creative industry cluster dynamics: the growth and decline of the Japanese video game software
industry
M. Ernkvist, Patrik Ström
Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography - 2018 -
The Korean online game wave – development within the experience
economy
Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist
Services, experiences and innovation : integrating and extending research / edited by Ada Scupola and Lars Fuglsang - 2018 -
The service sector in the free-trade agreement between the EU and Singapore: closing the gap between policy and business
realities.
Erja Kettunen, Claes G. Alvstam, Patrik Ström
Asia Europe Journal - 2017 -
Services and the Green
Economy
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström, Brita Hermelin, Grete Rusten
2016 -
Crossing the Digital Desert in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Policy
Matter?
Robert Wentrup, Xu Xiangxuan, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Policy & Internet - 2016 -
Digital oases and digital deserts in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Robert Wentrup, Patrik Ström, Richard Nakamura
Journal of Science & Technology Policy Management - 2016 -
Chinese Foreign Acquisitions Aimed for Innovation Upgrading: The Case of Geely and Volvo
Cars
Ramsin Yakob, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
2016 Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business – the locus of global innovation, New Orleans, LA USA, June 27-30, 2016, Presenting (1) Fostering Local Managerial Capacity in China: HRM, Matched Pairs, and Knowledge-Collectivities - 2016 -
Online services: An equalising force between the global north and the global
south?
Robert Wentrup, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Globalisation and Services-Driven Economic Growth: Perspectives from the Global North and South, Edited By Niels Beerepoot, Bart Lambregts, Jana Kleibert - 2016 -
The transformative roles of knowledge-intensive business services in developing green ICT, Evidence from Gothenburg,
Sweden
Xu Xiangxuan, Patrik Ström
Services and the Green Economy - 2016 -
MULTILATINAS AND THE GROWING SERVICE ECONOMY IN LATIN AMERICA A Challenge for EU-Latin American business
relations
Patrik Ström, Claes G. Alvstam, Andrew Jones
Économies, gestion et sociétés, European Review of Service Economics and Management - 2016 -
Digitalisering och nya ekonomiska
geografier
Robert Wentrup, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Gränsöverskridande: vänbok till Claes G. Alvstam [redaktörer: Linda Berg ...] - 2016 -
Chinese Foreign Acquisitions Aimed for Innovation Upgrading: The Case of Geely and Volvo
Cars
Ramsin Yakob, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Refereegranskad för Academy of International Business 2016 - 2016 -
Gränsöverskridande : vänbok till Claes G. Alvstam / [redaktörer: Linda Berg
...]
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Heterogeneous Economic Space in a Global Archipelago - An Economic Geography Perspective of Emerging
Markets
Claes G. Alvstam, Patrik Ström, Robert Wentrup
Handbook of Research on Emerging Markets - 2016 -
Conclusion: The Central Role of Services in the Greening of the
Economy
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström, Brita Hermelin, Grete Rusten
Services and the Green Economy - 2016 -
Introduction: Services and the Green
Economy
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström, Brita Hermelin, Grete Rusten
Services and the Green Economy - 2016 -
Internationalization as Innovation Driver in
Services
Patrik Ström, Robert Wentrup
Service Innovation - 2016 -
Crossing Borders - Opera Performances by
ICT
Sten Lorentzon, Patrik Ström
Gränsöverskridande - 2016 -
Dynamics of economic spaces in the global knowledge-based economy—theory and East Asian
cases
Patrik Ström
Journal of Economic Geography - 2016 -
Digital oases in a digital desert – The heterogeneous spread of online service usage in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Robert Wentrup, Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Association of American Geographers. April 21-25 2015. Chicago, US. - 2015 -
‘El souk digital’ – digital entrepreneurs in a global but uneven market
place
Robert Wentrup, Patrik Ström, Richard Nakamura
4th Global Conference on Economic Geography. 19-23 August 2015. - 2015 -
THE CHINESE FIRMS’ UTILIZATION OF FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS IN PERIPHERAL INDUSTRIALIZED REGIONS FOR ENHANCING INNOVATION
CAPABILITIES
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
4th Global Conference on Economic Geography. 19-23 August 2015. - 2015 -
Regional reconfiguration of the multinational companies in the knowledge
economy
Ola Bergström, Patrik Ström
The European Association for Research on Services, Annual conference 2015, proceedings. Septermber 10-12 2015, Köpenhamn. Organiserat av Roskilde Universitet. - 2015 -
Upp, ned, och upp igen? Om styrkan och potentialen i den japanska
ekonomin
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Japan Nu – Strömningar och perspektiv, 2nd edition - 2015 -
The Rise of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) in Asian emerging
economies
Andrew Jones, Patrik Ström
The European Association for Research on Services, Annual conference 9-12 September 2015 Copenhagen, Denmark, proceedings - 2015 -
Service research and economic
geography
Patrik Ström
Handbook of Service Business, Management, Marketing, Innovation and Internationalisation - 2015 -
On the waterfront: Studying the development of residences and workplaces at Norra Älvstranden, Gothenburg,
Sweden
Patrik Ström, Jonathan Borggren
Local Economy - 2014 -
Multilatinas and the growing service economy in Latin America: a Challenge for EU-Latin American business
relations
Patrik Ström, Claes G. Alvstam, Andrew Jones
24th European Association for Reserach on Services, Annual Conference, September 11-13 2014, Helsinki, Finland. Proceedings - 2014 -
Chinese outward M&A to Japan – Do they have any
impact?
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
The 8th China Goes Global Conference 2014, Shanghai, China - 2014 -
Chinese inward M&A in Japan – Do they contribute to spatial dynamics and are they influenced by regional institutional
support?
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
The AJBS 2014 Conference, Vancouver, Canada - 2014 -
Multilatinas and the growing service economy in Latin America: A Challenge for EU-Latin American business
relations.’
Patrik Ström, Claes G. Alvstam
Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business, Mölle May 20-23. - 2014 -
Chinese outward M&A to Japan – Do they have any
impact?
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Presentation at the Asian Development Bank Institutite (ADBI), Tokyo, Japan, 10 December 2014 - 2014 -
Chinese outward M&A to Japan – Do they have any
impact?
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
The 31st Annual Conference of Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand - 2014 -
Chinese Acquiring Japanese: Motives and Patterns of Chinese Outward M&A to
Japan
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Asia Pacific Management Review - 2014 -
Product and Service Interaction in the Chinese Online Game
Industry
Patrik Ström, Ernkvist Mirko
Technology Innovation Management Review - 2014 -
High-Level Group on Business Services, Final
Report
Patrik Ström
2014 -
Services:the growth engine in emerging
markets
Patrik Ström
Services Scoop: the Caribbean Trade in Services Magazine - 2014 -
Samsung Electronics: From 'National Champion' to 'Global
Leader'
Sang-Chul Park, Claes G. Alvstam, Patrik Ström, Harald Dolles
Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global Economy, ed. by Alvstam, Claes G., Harald Dolles and Patrik Ström - 2014 -
Concluding Remarks on Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global
Economy
Claes G. Alvstam, Harald Dolles, Patrik Ström
Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global Economy, ed. by Alvstam, Claes G., Harald Dolles and Patrik Ström - 2014 -
Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global Economy - An
Introduction.
Claes G. Alvstam, Harald Dolles, Patrik Ström
Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges to the Global Economy, ed. by Alvstam, Claes G., Harald Dolles and Patrik Ström - 2014 -
Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global
Economy
Claes G. Alvstam, Harald Dolles, Patrik Ström
2014 -
On the competitive frontier of green Internet of Things: The intermediary role of knowledge-intensive business
services
Xu Xiangxuan, Patrik Ström
Proceedings of the European Association for Research on Services - 2013 -
The changing competitive landscape in Euro-Asia
business
Harald Dolles, Claes G. Alvstam, Patrik Ström
Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management - 2013 -
Managing the Japanese Service Industry: Location, Competition and
Internationalization
Patrik Ström
Service Industries and Regions, Growth, Location and Regional Effects. Edited by Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura. - 2013 -
The Service Sector in the Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Singapore: Pilot case for other Asian
countries?
Claes G. Alvstam, Patrik Ström
Paper presented at the 15th Annual Conference on European Integration, the Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business, Mölle, May 21-24 2013 - 2013 -
The Service Sector in the Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Singapore: Pilot case for other Asian
countries?
Claes G. Alvstam, Harald Dolles, Patrik Ström
Paper presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Euro-Asian Management Studies Association, Duisburg, Germany, November 27-30, 2013 - 2013 -
Firm level Chinese FDI in Japan – spatial dynamics and regional economic
development
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
International Geographical union Regional Conference, Kyoto, August 14, 2013 - 2013 -
Guest Editorial: The Resilience of the Global Service
Economy
Patrik Ström
Service Industries Journal - 2012 -
Services, innovation, employment and organisation: research gaps and challenges for the next
decade
John Bryson, Luis Rubalcaba, Patrik Ström
Service Industries Journal - 2012 -
Internationalisation of the Korean online game industry: exemplified through the case of
NCsoft
Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist
International Journal of Technology and Globalisation - 2012 -
On the waterfront: Creative individuals’ residences and workplaces at Norra Älvstranden, Gothenburg,
Sweden.
Jonathan Borggren, Patrik Ström
RESER proceedings; Services and Economic Development 2012 - 2012 -
Ekonomisk utveckling och innovationer i det moderna
Japan
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Japan Nu: strömningar och perspektiv - 2012 -
Corporate Strategy of Samsung Electronics: From a National Champion to a Global
Leader
Sang-Chul Park, Claes G. Alvstam, Harald Dolles, Patrik Ström
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (Theme: “The Changing Competitive Landscape in Euro-Asian Business”) - 2011 -
Managing the Japanese service industry – location, competitiveness and
internationalization
Patrik Ström
Proceedings of the European Association for research on services (RESER) 2011 - 2011 -
Managing the Japanese service industry – location, competitiveness and
internationalization
Patrik Ström
Global conference on economic geography proceedings 2011 - 2011 -
The Japanese service industry - competitiveness and
internationalization
Patrik Ström
Association of American Geographers proceedings - 2011 -
A conceptualization of the product/service interface: Case of the packaging industry in
Japan
Caroline Bramklev, Patrik Ström
Journal of Service Science Research - 2011 -
Cultural Service Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development in Peripheral
Communities
Ross Nelson, Patrik Ström, Jonas Bjälesjö
Small Cities Imprint - 2011 -
Space Oddity – On Managerial Decision Making and
Space
Patrik Ström, Roger Schweizer
Spaces of International Economy and Management Launching New Perspectives on Management and Geography - 2011 -
REGIONAL AND FIRM COMPETITIVENESS IN THE SERVICE-BASED ECONOMY: COMBINING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
THEORY
Patrik Ström, Evelina Wahlqvist
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie - 2010 -
Dynamic regional competitiveness in the creative economy: can peripheral communities have a
place?
Patrik Ström, Ross Nelson
The Service Industries Journal - 2010 -
Space Oddity – On Managerial Decision Making and
Space.
Patrik Ström, Roger Schweizer
Paper for the 1st International Symposium on Management Geography, Spaces of International Economy and Management, Kyoto, March 24-25 - 2010 -
Internationalization of the Korean online game industry: the case of
NCsoft
Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist
Proceedings of Business in Asia: A Global Shift in the Knowledge Economy 9th – 10th of December 2009, Göteborg. - 2009 -
Buying
Japanese
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Proceedings of the China Economic Research Center (CERC) at the Stockholm School of Economics and China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at the Peking University “China in the World Economy” - 2009 -
Buying Japanese: Motives and Pattern of Inward Chinese FDI to
Japan
Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström
Proceedings of the Euro Asia Management Studies Association - 2009 -
Cultural Service Innovation as a Tool for Regional Development in Peripheral
Communities
Ross Nelson, Patrik Ström, Jonas Bjälesjö
Proceedings of the European Association for Research on Services, RESER - 2009 -
International Business Geography: Case Studies of Corporate
Firms
Patrik Ström
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografi - 2009 -
On the economic interdependence between China and Japan– challenges and
possibilities
Claes G. Alvstam, Patrik Ström, Naoyuki Yoshino
Asia Pacific Viewpoint - 2009 -
Japanese financial service firms in East and Southeast Asia: Location pattern and strategic response in changing economic
conditions
Patrik Ström, Naoyuki Yoshino
Asian Business & Management - 2009 -
Internationalization of the Korean online game industry: the case of
NCsoft
Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist
Euro Asia Management Studies Association - 2008 -
Dynamic Regional Competitivness in the Creative Economy – Can Pheripheral Communities Have a
Place?
Patrik Ström, Ross Nelson
European Association of Research on Services - 2008 -
The Relocation of Activities in Industry and Services - Examples from Western
Sweden
Patrik Ström, Sten Lorentzon, Urban Fransson
RESER Working Paper - 2008 -
Enmeshed in Games with the Government: Governmental Policies and the Development of the Chinese Online Games
Industry
Mirko Ernkvist, Patrik Ström
Games and Culture - 2008 -
Management of service bundling through the product/service interface – examples of product and package solutions in
Japan
C Bramklev, Patrik Ström
Proceeding of the Society for Global Business & Economic Development 10th conference - 2007 -
On the economic interdependence between China and Japan – challenges and
possibilities
Claes G. Alvstam, Patrik Ström, Naoyuki Yoshino
CERC conference ”China in the World Economy” Stockholm School of Economics, 30 November – 2 December, 2007. - 2007 -
The unbound network of product and service interaction of the MMOG industry: with a case study of
China
Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist
Proceedings of Digital Games Research Association, 24th-28th September 2007, Tokyo. - 2007 -
The Relocation of Activities in Industry and Services - Examples from Western
Sweden
Sten Lorentzon, Patrik Ström, Urban Fransson
Proceedings of the European Association of Research on Services, Tampere, Sept. 2007. - 2007 -
On the issue of regional and firm competitiveness in the service based economy combining economic geography and international business
theory
Evelina Wahlqvist, Patrik Ström
Proceedings of the European Association of Research on Services, Tampere, Sept. 2007 - 2007 -
Sverige i den kreativa
ekonomin
Patrik Ström, Evelina Wahlqvist
PLAN - 2007 -
Sweden in the Creative
Age
Irene Tinagli, Richard Florida, Patrik Ström, Evelina Wahlqvist
2007 -
En andra chans till ett bättre
liv
Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist
Axess Magasin- en tidskrift inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap - 2007 -
Internationalization of Japanese Professional Business Service Firms: Dynamics of Competitiveness through Urban Localization in Southeast
Asia.
Patrik Ström
Knowledge-based Services, Internationalisation and Regional Development (Dynamics of Economic Space) James W. Harrington (Editor), Peter Daniels (Editor) - 2006 -
Internationalisation of Japanese professional business service
firms
Patrik Ström, Jan Mattsson
Services Industries Journal - 2006 -
Is Japan Still Playing the Game?-Competitiveness of the Japanese video game software industry
1995-2006
Mirko Ernkvist, Patrik Ström
AJBS june 2006 Beijing conference proceeding - 2006 -
The asian on-line game wave- Changin regional competition in the field of digital cultural
industries
Patrik Ström, Mirko Ernkvist
Cultural space and public sphere in Asia- An international conference, Seoul March 15-16 - 2006 -
Företagen som aktörer i den regionala
tillväxtstrategin
Patrik Ström, Olof Zaring, Rolf Wolff, Niklas Egels-Zandén, Magnus Eriksson
2005 -
Internationalization of Japanese Professional Business Service Firm: Dynamics of Competitiveness in Southeast
Asia.
Patrik Ström
Cities in Global Perspective: Diversity and Transition. - 2005 -
Japanese Professional Business Services: A Proposed Analytical
Typology.
Patrik Ström, Jan Mattsson
Asia Pacific Business Review - 2005 -
The Japanese Service Industry: An International
Comparison.
Patrik Ström
Social Science Japan Journal - 2005 -
The 'Lagged' Internationalization of Japanese Professional Business Service Firms: Experiences from the UK and
Singapore.
Patrik Ström
2004