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The Economics of Services
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Productivity, Innovation and Knowledge in Services
Written by some of the most distinguished authors in the field, this book elucidates the critical and complex relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain service productivity and innovation, and call for a conceptual re-working of the ways in which these are measured. They also highlight the important role of knowledge in the production system and in doing so make an important contribution to a key debate which has emerged in the social sciences in recent years.
New Economy, New Myth
With so much written about the 'new economy', this book employs a mixture of academic rigour and readable prose making it a distinctive and intriguing read for those interested in the internet bubble - and the furor that surrounded it.
Services in Economic Thought
The growth of the services sector has profoundly transformed developed societies, their economic characteristics, their occupational structures, and even their political priorities and value systems. No comprehensive theory of his growth exists, but for three centuries a number of major economists and social scientists have sought to analyze and explain its characteristics, dimensions and consequences. This book is the first to survey and evaluate these theoretical contributions on services growth, from the mercantillists and classicists to contemporary works, those beginning with Fisher, Clark and Fourasite, and further developed by Fuchs, Bell, Baumol, Stanback, Gershuny, among others. Thr...
Services in Economic Thought
Services today account for a major share of employment and national product in the U. S. , with the employment share up from 57 percent immediately post-war to well over 70 percent today (if communications, utilities and transportation are included). This transformation (which is also occurring with varying lags in the othereconomically advanced economies) is driven by a variety of forces : by changes in consumer demand, by the rising demand for health and educational services, by new ways in which businesses are organized and the increasing importance ofcertain functions (e. g. new demands for monitoring, financing, sales promotion, and responding to regulatory agencies), and, closely relat...
Introduction to Service Engineering
What you need to know to engineer the global service economy. As customers and service providers create new value through globally interconnected service enterprises, service engineers are finding new opportunities to innovate, design, and manage the service operations and processes of the new service-based economy. Introduction to Service Engineering provides the tools and information a service engineer needs to fulfill this critical new role. The book introduces engineers as well as students to the fundamentals of the theory and practice of service engineering, covering the characteristics of service enterprises, service design and operations, customer service and service quality, web-base...
The Well-being Transition
The purpose of this volume, bringing together key actors of the well-being community, including scholars and policy-makers, is to advance the understanding and undertaking of the well-being transition away from growth and toward resilience and sustainability, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity. A decade after the publication of the Stiglitz Report (2009), alternative visions to GDP and growth, that flourished in the 1970s, have re-emerged from all corners of the world, at all levels of governance. Yet, GDP and growth remain very much dominant in defining public policies, influencing businesses and shaping imaginaries. This book moves forward on two urgent tasks that stand before us in order to make progress in the well-being transition: first, connecting well-being to sustainability in a consistent framework highlighting their complementarity, using health as a pivot; second, operationalizing well-being indicators, i.e. integrating them into policy at all levels of governance.
Adieu à la croissance - Bien vivre dans un monde solidaire
La croissance : un remède à tous les maux ! Tel est le discours martelé par nos dirigeants depuis des décennies, qu'il s'agisse de réduire le chômage, de régler le problème des retraites, de résorber les inégalités ou de surmonter la crise écologique. Et si la croissance n'était pas la solution, mais le problème ? Elle est désormais un facteur de crise, une menace pour la planète et un obstacle au progrès. Faut-il pour autant nous résoudre à une austérité punitive ? Certes non, affirme Jean Gadrey, qui prône une société privilégiant le " mieux-être " et non le " plus-avoir ". Une société qui doit, et peut, viser le plein-emploi ainsi qu'un haut niveau de protection sociale pour tous. C'est le chemin d'une autre prospérité qui est ici proposé, plus juste, moins violente et donc réellement durable.
Elgar Encyclopedia of Services
The Encyclopedia of Services is a ground-breaking resource that offers a unique overview of what constitutes the main source of wealth and employment in our contemporary economies, namely services. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
The New Indicators of Well-Being and Development
The growth of GDP remains the principal focus of attention when it comes to judging the progress of the 'wealth of nations', however other attempts have been made, most of them since the 1990's, to enlarge such a narrow vision. New indicators of development, well being, social health or ecological footprint are presented in this volume as alternative methods of re-assessing the growing gap between well being and 'more having'. They show that ongoing growth might destroy vital natural resources and has already begun this depletion.
