{"product_id":"service-industries-in-the-world-economy-isbn-9780631181323","title":"Service Industries in the World Economy","description":"The geography of services is no longer of local or national significance: it now embraces the international stage. Service industries have enabled, and themselves become participants in, world trade. Although this is not a new role, during the 1980s they have become a much more active ingredient in the process of social and economic change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New and diversified service products have generated increased consumption, ranging from tourism and leisure, to sophisticated innovations in ways of making finance capital available for corporate growth or production strategies. But there are spatial variations between the world's nations, regions and cities that ensure a highly uneven ability to supply services, and to generate demand. There are contrasts between the developed, less-developed, and post-socialist economies of Eastern Europe, for example, and between major metropolitan areas around the globe in the extent to which they experience the positive (as well as negative) effects of the internationalization of the service economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book examines some explanations for the expanding role of services in the world economy. It is suggested that the resulting patterns are particularly significant for the form and function of the global urban system. The book concludes by reflecting on the future role of services in the world economy: can the trends evident for the 1980s be assumed to shape the evolving geography of services during the 1990s and beyond?  1. The Rise of Services: Some Factual and Theoretical Perspectives. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices: Definition and Classification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Recent Expansion of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplanations for Growth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnderstatement of Role of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Tradability of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTRadable and Non-Tradable Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInformation Technology and Tradability of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransport Technology and the Tradability of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eService Multinationals and the Tradability of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Studies of the Development of Service MNE'S.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetail Internationalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGovernment Influences on the Tradability of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in Consumer Requirements and Expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeasuring Trade in Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Outline of Global Trade in Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of Comparative Advantage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeign Direct Investment in Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInternational Trade in Services and the Developing Countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeveloping Country Service MNE's.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and International Trade in Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiberalizing International Trade in Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Services and the Global System of Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices and the Global Urban System: Some Explanations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices and Cities in the Global Urban System.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices and the Global Urban System: Some Examples.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Internationalization of Services and Restructuring of Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices and Employment Restructuring in Large Metropolitan Areas: Some Comparisons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImpacts on the Urban Property Market: Offices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanges in the Location of Services Within Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Services in the World Economy: Some Reflections.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices in the 1990s: Victims of the Decade of Optimism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eService-Dominated Economies: How Desirable?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs the Globalization of Services inevitable?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnfulfilled Potential of Telecommunications?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The book's value lies in its wide-sweeping survey of what is known about the entire field... a very useinformative book that can serve as a text for economic geographers, but which also deserves to be read by those with international interests from other disciplines. His work demonstrates that economic geographers have much to contribute in this area, especially in their handling and analysis of the data on international services.\" \u003ci\u003eService Industries Journal\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"The book's value lies in its wide-sweeping survey of what is known about the entire field... a very useful classroom tool for those concerned with exposing students to a critical area of investigation that remains under-researched.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Economic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eP. W. Daniels \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK, and was formerly Professor of Geography and Director of The Service Industries Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has published widely on the geography of services.  The geography of services is no longer of local or national significance: it now embraces the international stage. Service industries have enabled, and themselves become participants in, world trade. Although this is not a new role, during the 1980s they have become a much more active ingredient in the process of social and economic change.  \u003cp\u003eNew and diversified service products have generated increased consumption, ranging from tourism and leisure, to sophisticated innovations in ways of making finance capital available for corporate growth or production strategies. But there are spatial variations between the world's nations, regions and cities that ensure a highly uneven ability to supply services, and to generate demand. There are contrasts between the developed, less-developed, and post-socialist economies of Eastern Europe, for example, and between major metropolitan areas around the globe in the extent to which they experience the positive (as well as negative) effects of the internationalization of the service economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book examines some explanations for the expanding role of services in the world economy. It is suggested that the resulting patterns are particularly significant for the form and function of the global urban system. The book concludes by reflecting on the future role of services in the world economy: can the trends evident for the 1980s be assumed to shape the evolving geography of services during the 1990s and beyond?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990011101413,"sku":"NP9780631181323","price":48.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631181323.jpg?v=1761786197","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/service-industries-in-the-world-economy-isbn-9780631181323","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}