Master of Science in International Business (Ek. Mag.), 1999
PhD, Business Administration (Roskilde), 2003
Ek. dr. Economic Geography (Göteborg), 2004
Docent (associate professor), 2009

CV

Teaching:

• International Business and Economic Geography
• Internationalisation processes and global competition
• Localisation, production and internationalisation of professional business services
• Contemporary Japanese Political Economy

Research:

• Internationalisation of Japanese professional business service firms
• The growing service economy of East Asia
• The internationalisation and strategy of Video Game Software firms in East Asia
• Regional competition and creative regions

Research Group:

Centrum för Regional Analys (CRA)

Publications:

Ström, P. (2003) Internationalization of Japanese Professional Business Service Firms, PhD-dissertation 39/2003, Roskilde: Department of Social Sciences.

Ström, P. (2004) The ‘Lagged’ Internationalization of Japanese Professional Business Service Firms: Experiences from the UK and Singapore, Department of Human and Economic Geography, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Series B, no. 107.

Ström, P. (2005) The Japanese Service Industry: An International Comparison, Social Science Japan Journal, 8(2):253-266.

Ström, P. & Mattsson, J. (2005) Japanese Professional Business Services: A Proposed Analytical Typology, Asia Pacific Business Review, 11(1):49-68.

Ström, P. & Mattsson, J. (2006) Internationalisation of Japanese Professional Business Service Firms, The Service Industries Journal, 26(3):249-265.

Ström, P. (2006) Internationalisation of Japanese Professional Business Service Firms: Dynamics of Competitiveness Through Urban Localization in Southeast Asia, in Harrington, J.W. & Daniels, P.W. (eds.) Knowledge-Based Services: Internationalisation and Regional Development, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Ström, P. & Ernkvist, M. (2007) En andra chans till ett bättre liv, Axess Magasin, 2007:4.

Ström, P. & Wahlqvist, E. (2007) "Sverige i den kreativa ekonomin", Plan, Nr. 5-6, pp. 53-57.

Tinagli, I., Florida, R., Ström, P. and Wahlqvist, E. (2007) "Sweden in the Creative Age". Department of Human and Economic Geography. School of Businees, Economics and Law. Göteborg University. Occasional Papers 2007:2.

Mirko Ernkvist and Patrik Ström (2008) "Enmeshed in Games with the Government: Governmental Policies and the Development of the Chinese Online Game Industry", Games and Culture, 3: 98-126.

Ström, P. & Yoshino, N. (2009) Japanese financial service firms in East and Southeast Asia: Location pattern and strategic response in changing economic conditions, in Asian Business & Management, 8(1):33-58

Alvstam, C., Ström, P. & Yoshino, N. (2009) On the economic interdependence between China and Japan­ challenges and possibilities, accepted for publication and forthcoming in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 50(2).

Ström, P. & Nelson, R. (2009) Dynamic Regional Competitivness in the Creative Economy ­ Can Pheripheral Communities Have a Place?, accepted for publication and forthcoming in the Service Industries Journal.

Ström, P. & Wahlqvist, E. (2009) Regional and Firm Competitiveness in the Service Based Economy ­ Combining Economic Geography and International Business Theory, accepted for publication and forthcoming in Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie.

Conference contributions:

Ernkvist, M. & Ström, P. (2006) Is Japan Still Playing the Game? - Competitiveness of the Japanese video game software industry, 1995-2006, (2006) Proceedings 2006, Association of Japanese Business Studies.

Ström, P. & Yoshino, N. (2006) Japanese financial service firms in East and Southeast Asia: Location pattern and strategic response in changing economic conditions. Paper presented at the European Association of Research on Services, Lisbon, Sept. 2006.

Ström, P. & Ernkvist, M. (2007) The unbound network of product and service interaction of the MMOG industry: with a case study of China, Published in the Proceedings of Digital Games Research Association, 24th-28th September 2007, Tokyo.

Bramklev, C. & Ström, P. (2007) Management of service bundling through the product/service interface ­ examples of product and package solutions in Japan, Published in the Proceeding of the Society for Global Business & Economic Development 10th conference, 8th-11th August, 2007, Kyoto.

Wahlqvist, E. & Ström, P. (2007) On the issue of regional and firm competitiveness in the service based economy combining economic geography and international business theory, Paper presented at the European Association of Research on Services, Tampere, Sept. 2007.

Lorentzon, S., Ström, P. & Fransson, U. The Relocation of Activities in Industry and Services - Examples from Western Sweden, Paper presented at the European Association of Research on Services, Tampere, Sept. 2007.

Ström, P. & Nelson, R. (2008) Dynamic Regional Competitivness in the Creative Economy ­ Can Pheripheral Communities Have a Place?, Paper presented at the European Association of Research on Services, Stuttgart, Sept. 2008.

Ström, P. & Ernkvist, M. (2008) Internationalization of the Korean online game industry: the case of NCsoft, Presented at the EAMSA Conference 4-6 December 2008, Doshisha Business School, Kyoto.

Ernkvist, M. & Ström, P (2006) The Asian Online Game Wave ­ Changing Regional Competition in the Field of Digital Cultural Industries. Cultural Space and Public Sphere in Asia 2006, Seoul, Korea, http://asiafuture.org/csps2006/50pdf/csps2006_7c.pdf, Asia’s Future Initiative (AFI).

Visiting researcher:

Department of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, 2007, 2008.

The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, 2007.

Scancor, Stanford University, 2008.

Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2009.