Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States where he is also Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and the European Union Center of Excellence. He previously taught at Birkbeck College, London, and was Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, in the UK. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the comparative and historical analysis of business organization, employment relations, and socio-economic governance, including Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation (Oxford, 2005), Governing Work and Welfare in a New Economy: European and American Experiments (Oxford, 2003), Americanization and its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan (Oxford, 2000), and World of Possibilities: Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization (Cambridge, 1997). He is co-editor of the journal Socio-Economic Review, a member of the editorial board of Enterprise & Society, and a former Trustee of the Business History Conference.