An Interview With Michael Shuman: If We’re Serious About Localisation, All of Us Have To Go To Business School

An Interview With Michael Shuman: If We’re Serious About Localisation, All of Us Have To Go To Business School

I think localisation really is two pieces – one is ownership and the other is proximity. The particular spread of local food ideas has given a lot of weight to the proximity issue – that is, that the distance between farm to table should be a short one – but I think it’s given short thrift to the ownership issues, and I consider it just as essential that localisation involve local ownership of every node of a shortened journey that a good or service travels to get to the end user.