… Barriers to entry—which can be structural (economies of scale), strategic (price reductions), …
the following categories, listed in order of importance to the travel service industries: Capital …

… We can characterize the services sector in terms analogous to those used for the other two
… Based on firm-level studies, this chapter further considers questions of entrepreneurship and …

… economies-in Europe, North America, and Australasia-have faced massive structural change.
Industrial sectors… and economic significance, while service sectors have taken over as the …

… occupying the space economy, mean that we can no longer relegate the sector to the …
Although the tourist industry, along with other service industries such as retailing or financial …

… service sector. Statistical data published by GATT show that in 1984 the service sector of the
economy … They have an important effect on the norms and values which guide the overall …

… We are grateful to all the participants for the material they … research programme in the service
economy and we are grateful to … , is a study of 'soft' innovation in an important service sector …

… of the service sector has been recognised for some decades, and discussions about the role
of services in the economy can … In Chapter 10, we consider one set of questions concerning …

… and links to other chapters Chapter review questions … managers in the services sector
develop their service offer, … quarters of the size of developed economies. The very size of the …

… In summary, the service sector of the transition economies provides … questions in the MO
scale were considered relevant by managers in both the in‐depth interviews and the final survey…

… economy in general, and the specific role of human capital and innovation in the service sector
(… traditional questions for the manufacturing sector (eg patent activities) together with new, …