The handbook of service industries /

Other Authors: Bryson, J. R.,, Daniels, P. W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, c2007.
Series:Elgar original reference
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of services / Sven Illeris
  • Services and innovation : conceptual and theoretical perspectives / Jeremy Howells
  • National economies and the service society : the diversity of models / Jean Gadrey
  • Theories of the information age / Nico Stehr
  • The political economy of services in tertiary economies / Pascal Petit
  • A global service economy? / Peter W. Daniels
  • Services and regional development in the United States / William B. Beyers
  • Service industries, global city formation, and new policy discourses within the Asia-Pacific / Tom Hutton
  • Service development in transition economies : achievements and missing links / Metka Stare
  • Whither global cities : the analytics and the debates / Saskia Sassen
  • Transport services and the global economy : towards a seamless market / Thomas R Leinbach and John T. Bowen
  • Empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization / Robert Stern and Alan Deardorf
  • Multinational service firms and global strategy / Peter Enderwick
  • Knowledge-intensive-services and innovation / Ian Miles
  • 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
  • Understanding the relationship between information communications technologies and the behaviour of firms located in regional clusters / Grete Rusten and John R. Bryson
  • Services and the internet / Andrew Murphy
  • Knowledge creation in a Japanese convenience store chain : the case Seven-Eleven Japan / Ikujiro Nonaka, Vesa Peltokorpi, and Dai Senoo
  • Embodied services and global value-added networks / Barney Warf
  • Gender divisions of labour : sex, gender, sexuality, and embodiment in the service sector / Linda McDowell
  • Transnational work : global professional labour markets in professional service accounting firms / Jonathan V. Beaverstock.