[1] His doctoral dissertation, Global Innovation, from 1996 focuses on product development efforts in multinational corporations.
He did research and wrote his thesis at the Institute of International Business at the Stockholm School of Economics where he was mentored by the now late Professor Gunnar Hedlund.
[citation needed] The sequels, Karaoke Capitalism: Management for mankind and Funky Business Forever: How to enjoy capitalism, also describe recipes for how to make it in the new world of commerce (all three books were co-authored with Kjell A. Nordström).
In 2008, Wiley published Ridderstråle's latest book Re-energizing the Corporation: How leaders make change happen (co-written with Mark Wilcox).
[4] In 2007, he received the Italian Nobels Colloquia award for “Leadership in Business and Economic Thinking”.