Product Description: Economic activities are becoming increasingly globalised. One result being that for companies in developed market economies price-based competition is being replaced or supplemented by other forms of competitiveness. This book explores the shift towards design-based competitiveness and the escalation in the design-intensity of goods and services...read more

Product Description: Service activities are now acknowledged as key players in economic development, societal change and public policy worldwide. This exciting handbook not only contributes to ongoing conceptual debates about the nature of service-led economies and societies; it also pushes back the frontiers of current critical thinking about the role of service activities in urban and regional development and the important research agendas that remain to be addressed...read more

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Product Description: ‘Globalisation is a new phenomenon in our economic history. The way our service economy responds to this mega trend is largely unknown. This volume brings together a unique collection of original studies on trading services in a global economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Provides students as well as lecturers with an international Reader focusing on the evolving economic geography of the advanced capitalist economies of Europe, North America, and the Pacific Rim within the framework of economic globalisation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)