The handbook of service industries
By: edited by John R. Bryson and Peter W. Daniels.
Contributors: Bryson, J. R., 1963-; Daniels, P. W.
Series: Elgar original reference
Publisher: Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Northampton, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781840649482
Subjects: Service industries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of services / Sven Illeris; title: Services and innovation : conceptual and theoretical perspectives / Jeremy Howells; title: National economies and the service society : the diversity of models / Jean Gadrey; title: Theories of the information age / Nico Stehr; title: The political economy of services in tertiary economies / Pascal Petit; title: A global service economy? / Peter W. Daniels; title: Services and regional development in the United States / William B. Beyers; title: Service industries, global city formation, and new policy discourses within the Asia-Pacific / Tom Hutton; title: Service development in transition economies : achievements and missing links / Metka Stare; title: Whither global cities : the analytics and the debates / Saskia Sassen; title: Transport services and the global economy : towards a seamless market / Thomas R Leinbach and John T. Bowen; title: Empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization / Robert Stern and Alan Deardorf; title: Multinational service firms and global strategy / Peter Enderwick; title: Knowledge-intensive-services and innovation / Ian Miles; title: 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; title: Understanding the relationship between information communications technologies and the behaviour of firms located in regional clusters / Grete Rusten and John R. Bryson; title: Services and the internet / Andrew Murphy; title: Knowledge creation in a Japanese convenience store chain : the case Seven-Eleven Japan / Ikujiro Nonaka, Vesa Peltokorpi, and Dai Senoo; title: Embodied services and global value-added networks / Barney Warf; title: Gender divisions of labour : sex, gender, sexuality, and embodiment in the service sector / Linda McDowell; title: Transnational work : global professional labour markets in professional service accounting firms / Jonathan V. Beaverstock.