1st Edition

Service Worlds People, Organisations, Technologies

By John Bryson, Peter Daniels, Barney Warf Copyright 2004
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information and communications technology (ICT). It has transformed the role of space and time in patterns of economic development, in the rise of globalization and in the scale and structure of organizations. ICT has... Read more
Acknowledgements 1. Services Worlds 2. Changing Perspectives on the Service Economy 3. From Networks to New Forms of Regulation 4. Service Knowledge and the Production Process 5. The Rise and Role of Producer Services 6. Service Work 7. Information and Communications Technology and Services: Opportunities and Impacts 8. Consuming Services: Circuits of Knowledge, Stages and Performances 9. Service Spaces 10. Services and Globalisation 11. Global Services: from Trade to Foreign Direct Investment 12. Service Worlds Revisited References

Biography

Peter Daniels is Professor of Geography ay the University of Birmingham, UK.
John Bryson is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Barney Warf is Professor and Chair of Geography at Florida State University, USA.