Why have services grown into the dominant sector of developed economies? Our analysis of macroeconomic data shows that business services make the strongest contribution to the rise of the service sector. We integrate three related economic theories of the firm to explain business services in...

Economists pay little attention to the services sector, defined as intangible activities incorporated in utilisation of the good. Italy has a share of services similar to that of its equally developed European partners (around 70% of GDP) but internet services are still not widespread,...

This study extends Baumol's (1967) two-sector (manufacturing and services) unbalanced growth model to analyze a situation in which, first, services are used for both final consumption and intermediate inputs into manufacturing production, and second, the productivities of the manufacturing and...

В статье рассмотрены проблемы управления развитием современных российских компаний, адаптированные к специфике работы предприятий сферы обслуживания...

В статье рассматривается принципиально новое понятие «сервисный капитал» как категория современной экономики; раскрываются его природа, условия формирования...

Вопросы формирования социально значимых услуг в рыночной экономике привлекают внимание как практиков, так и теоретиков. Обеспечение услугами малоимущих...

Part of a larger research, this paper ranges among the matter of ideas confrontation concerning the causes of the economic crises and those keys to be passed. Paper aims at finding and praising the defining elements of our economy, in the purpose of better understanding the nowadays crisis, and...

This work considers the application of a platform strategy in order to promote the adoption of advanced network infrastructures by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). First, we analyse the incentives of industrial players in a context where SMEs playing an important economic role and where...

Vor dem Beginn der Fußball Europameisterschaft (EM 2008) haben nur etwa ein Fünftel der befragten Erwachsenen geglaubt, dass das Auswahlteam des Deutschen Fußball Bundes (DFB) die Europameisterschaft gewinnen wird. Nach dem Auftaktsieg der DFB-Auswahl ist dieser Wert sofort gestiegen. Man...