Trading services in the global economy / edited by Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura, Luis Rubalcaba-Bermejo, J.R. Bryson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cuadrado Roura, Juan R.

Rubalcaba-Bermejo, Luis.

Bryson, J. R., 1963-

Conference Name:

RESER Congress (9th : 1999 : Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Service industries--Congresses.

Service industries.

International trade--Congresses.

International trade.

Globalization--Congresses.

Globalization.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

1. The relationship between services and globalisation / Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura, Luis Rubalcaba-Bermejo, John R. Bryson 1

Part I Globalisation and Services: Concepts and Trends 25

2. Services in the age of globalisation: explanatory interrelations and dimensions / Luis Rubalcaba-Bermejo, Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura 27

3. The globalisation of services in economic theory and economic practice: some conceptual issues / Orio Giarini 58

4. A comparative approach to the internationalisation of service industries / Luis Rubalcaba-Bermejo, Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura 78

Part II Global Trade, Global Investment and Global Management 109

5. EU service trade, with particular reference to business and professional services / Peter W. Daniels 111

6. Transaction modes and the internationalisation of business service firms in the Haute-Garonne / Pierre-Yves Leo, Jean Philippe 134

7. Internationalisation of commercial activities: some recent theoretical contributions and empirical evidence / Peter Sjoholt 150

8. 'Trading' business knowledge between countries: consultants and the diffusion of management knowledge / John R. Bryson 175

Part III The Liberalisation of Service Trade-The Gats 191

9. Services trade and globalisation: governmental services and public policy concerns / David Hartridge 193

10. The liberalisation of international trade in services: issues of competence and legitimacy for the GATS-and the impact of its rules on institutions / Julian Arkell 206

11. GATS 2000: the issues at stake, an EC perspective / Sergio Balibrea 231

12. An American policy perspective on service trade: the views of the Coalition of Service Industries on the United States Negotiating Objectives for Services at the Seattle WTO / Robert Vastine 251

13. Developing countries and the GATS 2000 Round / Pierre Sauve 257

14. A real Single Market for services? / Jean-Yves Muylle 265.

Notes:

Selected papers presented at the 9th RESER Congress, held at University of Alcalá in October 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840646101

OCLC:

48466671