Globalization of Services

Some Implications for Theory and Practice
Herausgeber: Aharoni, Yair; Nachum, Lilach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780415513784
• ISBN-10: 0415513782
• Artikelnr.: 57039672

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: setting up the scene Y. Aharoni Part I: The Globalization
of Service Industries 2. Foreign direct investment in services: trends and
patterns P. Mallampally and Z. Zimny 3. Developing regulatory disciplines
in professional services: the role of the World Trade Organization D.
Honeck Part II: Theory 4. FDI, the location advantages of countries and the
competitiveness of TNCs: US FDI in professional service industries L.
Nachum 5. History and contingency in international accounting firms D.J.
Cooper, T. Rose, R. Greenwood and R. Hinnings 6. The role of reputation in
global professional business services Y. Aharoni 7. The globalization of
professional business service firms - fad or genuine source of competitive
advantage? B. Lowendhal 8. Enforcement and appropriation of music:
intellectual property rights in global markets D. Kretschmer, C.
Baden-Fuller, G.M. Klimis and R. Wallis 9. International franchising: a
network approach to FDI K. Fladmoe-Lindquist 10. Knowledge, creation and
transfer in global service firms R. Grosse Part III: Case Studies 11.
Global competition in industrial services: an analysis of aircraft
maintenance, repair and overhaul services T.K. Seng and P. Enderwick 12.
International alliances in service business: the case of airline industry
H. Seristo 13. DHL Worldwide Express: providing just-in-time delivery
services across customs borders in Central and Eastern Europe M Kostecki
14. Globalization of hotel services: an examination of ownership and
alliance patterns in a maturing service sector F. Contractor and S.K. Kundu
15. The search for core competencies in a service multinational: a case
study of the French hotel Novotel S. Segal Horn