Handbook of Service Industries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

Service activities are now acknowledged as key players in economic development, societal change and public policy worldwide. This exciting Handbook not only contributes to ongoing conceptual debates about the nature of service-led economies and societies; it also pushes back the frontiers of current critical thinking about the role of service activities in urban and regional development and the important research agendas that remain to be addressed.Drawing on both theory and case studies, the contributors are international experts who have written original and stimulating chapters from a number of different disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter seeks to raise awareness of, and to provoke debates about, the opportunities and challenges presented by the shift to service employment.Providing a truly interdisciplinary analysis, The Handbook of Service Industries will be invaluable to scholars specializing in services research, as well as students and researchers in the areas of economics, geography, business and management, sociology, public policy and planning. The policy-making community will also find the Handbook a relevant and useful resource.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-05-25
Mått:169 x 244 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781840649482

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Servicesektorn inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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Edited by John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and the late Peter W. Daniels, formerly Emeritus Professor of Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

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'It contains an impressive array of important and useful material that should be familiar to anyone interested in economic growth and change. . . the potential value to be gained from these collected works is great.'

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: 1. Worlds of Services: From Local Service Economies to Offshoring or Global SourcingJohn R. Bryson and Peter W. DanielsPART I: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES 2. The Nature of Services Sven Illeris3. Services and Innovation: Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives Jeremy Howells4. National Economies and the Service Society: The Diversity of Models Jean Gadrey5. Theories of the Information Age Nico Stehr6. The Political Economy of Services in Tertiary EconomiesPascal Petit PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SERVICE ECONOMIES 7. A Global Service Economy? Peter W. Daniels8. Services and Regional Development in the United StatesWilliam B. Beyers9. Service Industries, Global City Formation and New Policy Discourses within the Asia-PacificT.A. Hutton 10. Service Development in Transition Economies: Achievements and Missing Links Metka Stare11. Whither Global Cities: The Analytics and the Debates Saskia Sassen PART III: TRADING SERVICES: FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL PRODUCTION12. Transport Services and the Global Economy: Towards a Seamless MarketThomas R. Leinbach and John T. Bowen 13. Empirical Analysis of Barriers to International Services Transactions and the Consequences of Liberalization Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern 14. Multinational Service Firms and Global Strategy Peter EnderwickPART IV: SERVICES, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION15. Knowledge-Intensive Services and Innovation Ian Miles16. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Consumption of Traded (Producer Service Expertise) versus Untraded Knowledge and Expertise John R. Bryson and Peter W. Daniels 17. Understanding the Relationship between Information Communications Technology and the Behaviour of Firms Located in Regional Clusters Grete Rusten and John R. Bryson18. Services and the Internet Andrew Murphy19. Knowledge Creation in a Japanese Convenience Store Chain: The Case of Seven-Eleven Japan Ikujiro Nonaka, Vesa Peltokorpi and Dai SenooPART V: SERVICE EMPLOYMENT: EMBODIED AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR 20. Embodied Information, Actor Netoworks and Global Value-Added ServicesBarney Warf21. Gender Divisions of Labour: Sex, Gender, Sexuality and Embodiment in the Service SectorLinda McDowell22. Transnational Work: Global Professional Labour Markets in Professional Service Accounting FirmsJonathan V. BeaverstockReferencesIndex