| Description |
xiv, 210 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
IBG studies in geography |
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IBG studies in geography.
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| Contents |
1. The Rise of Services: Some Factual and Theoretical Perspectives -- Services: Definition and Classification -- The Recent Expansion of Services -- Explanations for Growth -- Understatement of Role of Services -- 2. The Tradability of Services -- Tradable and Non-Tradable Services -- Information Technology and the Tradability of Services -- Transport Technology and the Tradability of Services -- Service Multinationals and the Tradability of Services -- Case Studies of the Development of Service MNEs -- Retail Internationalization -- Government Influences on the Tradability of Services -- Changes in Consumer Requirements and Expectations -- 3. International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Services -- Measuring Trade in Services -- An Outline of Global Trade in Services -- The Role of Comparative Advantage -- Foreign Direct Investment in Services -- International Trade in Services and the Developing Countries -- Developing Country Service MNEs -- Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and International Trade in Services -- Liberalizing International Trade in Services -- 4. Services and the Global System of Cities -- Services and the Global Urban System: Some Explanations -- Services and World Cities in the Global Urban System -- Services and the Global Urban System: Some Examples -- 5. Internationalization of Services and Restructuring of Cities -- Services and Employment Restructuring in Large Metropolitan Areas: Some Comparisons -- Impacts on the Urban Property Market: Offices -- Changes in the Location of Services Within Cities -- 6. Services in the World Economy: Some Reflections -- Services in the 1990s: Victims of the Decade of Optimism? -- Service-Dominated Economies: How Desirable? -- Is the Globalization of Services Inevitable? -- Unfulfilled Potential of Telecommunications? |
| Summary |
Carefully charts the increased role of service industries within the world economy (within the context of uneven global development), demonstrating that spatial variations between the world's nations, regions and cities can limit their exposure to both the positive and negative effects of the internationalization of the service economy. These effects, it is argued, are of particular significance through their impact on the form and structure of the major cities that have been the key participants in the globalization of services. 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? |
| Analysis |
Service industries Economic geography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [178]-197) and index |
| Subject |
Service industries -- Economic aspects.
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Service industries.
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| LC no. |
9204300500 |
| ISBN |
0631177035 (acidfree paper) |
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0631181326 (paperback) |
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