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...

[eng] The service relations and their regulation. . In this article, it is argued that, in order to integrale services into economic thought, we need further elaboration of the relations of service, that is new technical, social and institutional means of narrowing the gap between supply and...

This Handbook brings together 49 international specialists to address an issue of increasing importance for the world’s post-industrial economies; innovation as it relates to services.