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Changing roles of state intervention in services in an era of open international markets / edited by Yair Aharoni. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in international management
- SUNY series in international management Changing roles of state intervention in services in an era of open international markets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- General Agreement on Trade in Services (Organization)--Congresses.
- General Agreement on Trade in Services (Organization).
- Service industries--Government policy--Congresses.
- Service industries.
- International business enterprises--Congresses.
- International business enterprises.
- Free trade--Congresses.
- Free trade.
- General Agreement on Trade in Services (1994 April 15)--Congresses.
- General Agreement on Trade in Services.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxv, 333 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the globalization of the service industry and the radical alteration that this has caused to the role of government. It will be helpful to managers in service industries who wish to learn more about changes in the environment in which they operate, and it also is essential reading for government officials who deal with the services sector. Written by some of the most knowledgeable experts in the field, the book surveys the structure and evolution of several industries and evaluates the different governmental roles that each has necessitated.
- Contents:
- Introduction: To Liberalize or to Protect? A Major Dilemma for Governments / Yair Aharoni
- Ch. 1. Changing Role of Government in Services / Yair Aharoni
- Ch. 2. Governmental Intervention in Services: A Cultural Specificity/Information Technology Framework / Karin Fladmoe-Lindquist
- Ch. 3. Effects of Regionalism on Industrial Policies / Jack N. Behrman
- Ch. 4. The Political and Fiscal Logic of Service Privatization in Developing Countries / William Ascher
- Ch. 5. Privatization and Deregulation of Telecommunications: The Latin American Experience / Ravi Ramamurti
- Ch. 6. Advertising Services in an Era of Open International Markets / Peter Daniels
- Ch. 7. The Changing International Insurance Industry / Nicos Scordis and Frances Katrishen
- Ch. 8. Management Consulting / Yair Aharoni
- Ch. 9. Home Countries' Effects on the Competitive Position of Advertising Agencies: Contrasting Success and Failure / Lilachi Nachum.
- Notes:
- Based on an international conference held at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in February 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7914-9437-3
- 0-585-07661-8
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