The new trend of globalization constrains companies worldwide to go outside of national frontiers to look for the specialized firms for different business areas in their needs for best equilibrium between high quality of services and cost-effective solutions. This trend emerges also in IT...

This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....