Service Competitiveness and Cohesion - Balancing Dynamics in the Knowledge Society – Tampere, 13-15 September 2007 13-09-2007 Introduction This year the RESER conference will be a special event marked with the
presentation of first awards for life-time achievements in the field of services
research. The key-note speakers of the conference are Professor William Baumol
and Professor Jean Gadrey.
Description
Services and service industries are becoming increasingly more important as
private and public decision-makers search for new sources of growth and
competitiveness. High expectations are set on a diverse collection of services
to enhance efficiency, provide complementary competences, and open up new
businesses thus potentially improving welfare and providing quality jobs that
have been acknowledged also within the Lisbon strategy of the EU. Globally,
services have recently become the most important sector for employment.
The heterogeneity of services means that there are considerable differences
between service sub-sectors and even within a single industry or national
economy in a range of factors including competitiveness, level of wages,
productivity and growth rates, and patterns of geographical distribution and
internationalization.
The RESER conference is interested in studies ranging from the micro to macro
level. There is also interest in studies focusing on regional and local dynamics
of service development as well as the internationalization of service provision
and consumption and increasing service FDI and emerging global service
production systems. Productivity and innovativeness in services can be explored
at the level of the firm or at regional and national level.
The main themes of the conference are the following:
Papers on all other aspects of research on services are also welcome. Papers
can be conceptual, empirical or methodological. Studies from social,
geographical, business, economic, policy and management sciences, and
particularly interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed as are doctoral studies.
Important deadlines are:
Programme
More information on the programme can be found in the "links section" at the
bottom of this page.
Location
Tampere, Finland
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