During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes of urban growth. In Asia-Pacific the rise of service industries has lead to national modernization programmes and globalization strategies. Services are also driving change in the internal form of city regions and are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use...
During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the begin...
Service business accounts for more than 75 per cent of the wealth and employment created in most developed market economies. The management and economics of service business is based around selling expertise, knowledge and experiences. This Handbook contributes to on-going debates about the nature of service business and the characteristics of service-led economies by exploring disciplinary perspectives on services, services and core business processes and the management of service business. A series of case studies are also provided. The volume pushes back the frontiers of current critical...
Service business accounts for more than 75 per cent of the wealth and employment created in most developed market economies. The management and econom...
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world's most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the `industrialization paradigm' and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic landscape among leading Asian states now comprises a burgeoning `New Economy' spectrum of the most advanced industrial trajectories, including finance, the knowledge economy and the `new cultural economy'. In an agenda-setting volume, New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities draws on stimulating research...
The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world's most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Followin...
