Description
Globalization of Services
Some Implications for Theory and Practice
Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy Series
Coordinators: Aharoni Yair, Nachum Lilach
Language: EnglishSubject for Globalization of Services:
Keywords
Professional Business Service Firms; Professional Service Firms; Professional Business Service; Firm Specific Advantages; Service Firms; Knowledge Intensive Service Firms; MRO Activity; Ownership Advantages; Ta Ge; Articles XVI; Global Clients; Client Firm; Multinational Service; National Firms; Service FDI; Telecommunications; International Franchising; Engine Overhaul; Gat Annex; Music Firm; Andersen Worldwide; Accountancy Disciplines; Total FDI Stock; Gat Schedule; Professional Service Industries
Publication date: 12-2011
352 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2000
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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In an era of accelerating change in the world economy, services are assuming greater importance for the economies of both developed and developing countries. As technological developments allow increasing tradeability of services, huge global firms are offering services across national boundaries. This important book explores the global impact of this economic phenomenon from both empirical and theoretical perspectives.
Yair Aharoni is Director of the College of Management, Tel Aviv, and author of Coalitions and Competition: The Globalization of Professional Business Services (Routledge, 1993).
Lilach Nachum is Senior Research Fellow at ESRC Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University. She is author of The Origins of the International Competitiveness of Firms.