Globalization of Services: Some Implications for Theory and Practice (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415226546 ISBN 13: 9780415226547

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

In an era of accelerating change in the world economy, services are assuming greater importance for the economies of both developed and developing countries. As technological developments allow increasing tradeability of services, huge global firms are offering services across national boundaries. This important book explores the global impact of this economic phenomenon from both empirical and theoretical perspectives.

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Synopsis:

In an era of accelerating change in the world economy, services are assuming greater importance for the economies of both developed and developing countries. As technological developments allow increasing tradeability of services, huge global firms are offering services across national boundaries. This important book explores the global impact of this economic phenomenon from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. A range of international authors, including both academics and representatives of major international organisations, offer contributions in two key areas: * case studies covering a wide range of service industries, from consumer services, such as hotels and airlines, to professional business-to-business services. * theories and paradigms of economic behaviour. The book questions whether traditional models developed with manufacturing industries in mind are applicable to the service sector, and suggests new directions for economic theory. Globalization of Services therefore offers economists both a wealth of new source material and a fresh perspective on the modern global economy. Y. Aharoni, College of Management, Israel, S.K.

Kundu, Saint Louis University, USA, R. Grosse, Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of Management, USA, P. Mallampally,

About the Author:

Yair Aharoni is Director of the College of Management, Tel Aviv, and author of Coalitions and Competition: The Globalization of Professional Business Services (Routledge, 1993).
Lilach Nachum is Senior Research Fellow at ESRC Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University. She is author of The Origins of the International Competitiveness of Firms.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0415226546
• ISBN 13: 9780415226547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Aharoni Yair, Nachum Lilach