Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities

Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities
Author: Peter W. Daniels
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113433737X

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 changes. These changes have created problems such as social polarization and the displacement of traditional industries and residential districts. Also, there are tensions between local and global processes in the development of service industries, and between the imperatives of competitive advantage and sustainable development. Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts to explore and illustrate the theoretical, conceptual and practical issues arising from the transformation of Asia-Pacific cities by service industries.

Markets and Institutions in Real Estate and Construction

Markets and Institutions in Real Estate and Construction
Author: Michael Ball
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470757566

The book explains why the real estate and construction industries are organised in the ways they are and then relates those characteristics to long-term market behaviour. It covers market dynamics - supply and demand; the interaction of property development and construction – and examines institutions and market structures. Real estate development and construction tend to be separate subjects in the literature. But construction is an inevitable part of any property development process and so has a major influence on the institutional structure of development. Markets & Institutions in Real Estate & Construction argues that these structures are best explained as a series of modern economic theories, based on competition and current production technologies. offers focus and breadth, and deal with controversial debates economic arguments made accessible through a non-technical writing style presents long-run international comparison of property market behaviour reflects internationalisation of property and construction markets

The Future of Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise

The Future of Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Enterprise
Author: Ravi Ramamurti
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2011-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857245554

This Festschrift in honour of Professor Yair Aharoni, a pioneer in the field of international business, looks at several of these new trends in FDI, what they will mean for firms and governments, and the opportunities created by these developments to enrich or extend extant theory.

Global Tensions

Global Tensions
Author: Lourdes Beneria
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2005-11-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135952647

Against the backdrop of demonstrations in Seattle, Porto Alegre and Genoa and within the context of growing resistances to free trade and the current global trends, Global Tensions takes a close look at the challenges posed by the processes of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Composed of original essays by renowned scholars, this volume explores controversial topics such as free trade, women's rights, labor standards, the World Trade Organization and global tensions.

Advertising and New Media

Advertising and New Media
Author: Christina Spurgeon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2007-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134086210

Clear and comprehensive, this book explores the evolving relationship between new media, advertising and new media consumers. Tracing the shift from ‘mass’ media to ‘my’ media, examples are taken from across the globe.

Philosophy of Science and Meta-Knowledge in International Business and Management

Philosophy of Science and Meta-Knowledge in International Business and Management
Author: Timothy M. Devinney
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781907129

This volume explores major issues and concepts in the field of international business and management and asks the question 'What is it that we know?' It examines key topics such as multinational enterprise and strategic management theory, post-merger integration, internalizing firms and the strategy-performance relationship.

Globalization of Services

Globalization of Services
Author: Yair Aharoni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2000-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134736371

This important book offers economists both a wealth of new source material and a fresh perspective on the modern global economy. It includes contributions from a wide range of international authors.

Service Business Costing

Service Business Costing
Author: Markus B. Baum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3834944440

​ Service firms have high overhead costs which are difficult to assign to individual services. To bring transparency to their value chain, they need costing approaches that help them find their own improvements. Markus B. Baum explores current theory and practice of value chain approaches and cost accounting to develop a costing approach with a suitable instrument for the allocation of fixed and overhead costs for a service firm. He describes the service business costing (SBC) approach. This hybrid-costing model has a hierarchical structure in terms of consolidation and allocates cost and revenues on the lowest hierarchical level possible to ensure that all costs and income are assigned to activities from which they originated.

The Client-Consultant Relationship in Professional Business Service Firms

The Client-Consultant Relationship in Professional Business Service Firms
Author: Natalia Nikolova
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3658243767

The interaction between clients and consultants during consulting projects is essential for their success and therefore for the long-term survival of consulting companies. The aim of this book is to further advance our understanding of the nature of client-consultant relationships. Building upon a critical discussion of the contributions and shortcoming of existing research, Natalia Nikolova proposes an innovative conceptual model, which provides a critical yet constructive platform for the development of a more differentiated view of professional work. The framework concentrates on the cultural and political relations between clients and consultants during service production. It represents a prolific platform for further research and provides practitioners with an increased awareness of hitherto under-explored issues of client-consultant relationships. This book is aimed at scholars of professional business service firms and those interested in multidisciplinary studies of human relations in general. It will also appeal to students interested in these areas and to clients and consultants involved in consulting projects.