This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary reviews of the relationship between services, globalisation and trade liberalisation as we enter the twenty-first century. Written by academics and policymakers, it contains a detailed analysis of the characteristics of service trade and of...

Service Industries in the Global Economy is a comparative international reference collection which identifies and reprints the most important articles on services and the service economy published by geographers, economists and sociologists. The focus is on the growth and evolution of service...

Service outsourcing is a well-known process that has been occurring since the early years of the 20th century and should be conceptualised as a standard procurement event. The distinction between service outsourcing and service offshoring is perhaps misleading as it confuses geography with the...