A Research Agenda for Manufacturing Industries in the Global Economy

Elgar Research Agendas

Edited by John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK, Chloe Billing, City-Region Economic Development Institute, University of Birmingham, UK, William Graves, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US and Godfrey Yeung, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

This timely Research Agenda provides a state-of-the-art review of existing research on manufacturing, as well as highlighting key areas of study to advance the field. Expert contributors from across the globe analyse the central role of manufacturing industries in the global economy, considering it as a multi-scalar process and assessing the impact of climate change in necessitating the decarbonization of production processes.