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First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The increased role of service industries within the world economy has become a key factor in most contemporary accounts of global social and economic change. Service industries have enabled, and have themselves become a participant in, world trade, developing a rapidly escalating significance over the past decade, as new and diversified service products have generated increased consumption (from tourism and leisure to the financial sector).
'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.' – James E. Pratt, Growth and Change 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 ad...
In the developing countries with market economies, employment in the service industries has been found to be growing much faster than was to be expected in the light of Colin Clark's classic analysis of The conditions of economic progress. The authors of the present work show that in most of the countries in question the main shift in employment has been not from the primary sector to the secondary but from the primary to the tertiary, as a result of a combination of strong private demand for services, the labour-intensive character of work in the service industries and a marked preference for.
This book covers a wide spectrum of topics, service contexts and methodologies and reflects the broad range of current services research. Its aim is to provide an eclectic overview of services marketing by including papers that demonstrate the breadth and depth of research in this area, and it reflects the international scope and the strength of the discipline as we enter the new millennium.
The service sector in most advanced economies accounts for up to seventy percent of employment and GDP and, given its growing importance, has received much research attention over the last two decades. However, not very much attention has been paid to the relationship between this sector and both its territorial impact and regional effects. The main objective of this book is to offer a comprehensive approach to these aspects, focusing particularly on the location factors of service industries and the importance of some specific services, such as business services and knowledge and information services. The contributions have been prepared by well-known experts in the field from a wide number of countries. The focus of all contributions is not only on theoretical aspects, but also provides empirical analyses on specific countries and topics such as the geographical concentration, globalization impacts, foreign direct investments, and innovation.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.