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Kristen Hill Maher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Workers and Strangers The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear
    Urban Affairs Review, 2003
    Co-Authors: Kristen Hill Maher
    Abstract:

    The growing household Service Economy (e.g., domestic Service, gardening) introduces social heterogeneity both within and near suburban regions that have previously been segregated by race and class. The author examines this dynamic through an ethnographic study of a community in Orange County, California, and argues that the shifts in social geography accompanying the household Service Economy in this neighborhood had exacerbated existing anxieties about security and contributed to the popular desire among residents to “fortress.” The findings of this study suggest that in a bifurcated Economy in which household Services proliferate, more suburban neighborhoods may retreat into highly regulated, gated communities.

Luis Rubalcaba - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The futures of the Service Economy in Europe: a foresight analysis
    Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2015
    Co-Authors: FaÏz Gallouj, Matthias Weber, Metka Stare, Luis Rubalcaba
    Abstract:

    The paper presents a signalling exercise with a view to trace emerging dynamics in the development of the Services Economy in Europe. These dynamics have a direct influence and will trigger off Service innovation. Firstly, the drivers of the Service Economy are presented, many of them fostering Service innovation as a way to face new societal and business challenges. Secondly, emerging developments are discussed to identify the most promising Service innovation dynamics. Finally, foresight scenarios demonstrate possible future trends of the new Service Economy. These scenarios are based on a methodology developed and applied in the context of an EC-funded project on Sectoral Innovation Systems. This exercise is performed for the overall set of Services activities although a particular focus is given on activities such as knowledge intensive business Services and distributive trade Services. Results indicate that emerging developments are those related to the reconciliation between industrialisation and customisation associated with ICT, ageing population, sustainable development and Service regression and extension dynamics. The cases of knowledge intensive Services and distributive trades have shown how different drivers and emerging developments are interrelated and establish different scenarios for future development.

  • The New Service Economy
    2007
    Co-Authors: Luis Rubalcaba
    Abstract:

    This valuable new book contributes greatly to a better understanding of the Service Economy. By exploring the key dimensions, available empirical evidence and associated policy implications, the author comprehensively investigates the new challenges facing the global Economy, including employment, productivity, innovation and competitiveness. The case of the European Services is highlighted, particularly in comparison to the US.

Huang Ling - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Stephen J. Bailey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Smart cities in the new Service Economy: Building platforms for smart Services
    AI and Society, 2014
    Co-Authors: Ari-veikko Anttiroiko, Pekka Valkama, Stephen J. Bailey
    Abstract:

    Recent changes in Service environments have changed the preconditions of their production and con- sumption. These changes include unbundling Services from production processes, growth of the information-rich Economy and society, the search for creativity in Service production and consumption and continuing growth of digital technologies. These contextual changes affect city governments because they provide a range of infrastructure and welfare Services to citizens. Concepts such as ‘smart city’, ‘intelligent city’ and ‘knowledge city’ build new horizons for cities in undertaking their challenging Service functions in an increasingly cost-conscious, competitive and environmentally oriented setting. What is essential in practically all of them is that they paint a picture of cities with smooth information processes, facilitation of creativ- ity and innovativeness, and smart and sustainable solutions promoted through Service platforms. This article discusses this topic, starting from the nature of Services and the new Service Economy as the context of smart local public ser- vices. On this basis, we build an overall framework for understanding the basic forms and dimensions of smart public Services. The focus is on conceptual systematisation of the key dimensions of smart Services and the conceptual modelling of smart Service platforms through which digital technology is increasingly embedded in social creativity. We provide examples of real-life smart Service applications within the European context.

Al James - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • building cross sector careers in india s new Service Economy tracking former call centre agents in the national capital region
    Development and Change, 2012
    Co-Authors: Bhaskar Vira, Al James
    Abstract:

    This article presents findings from a labour mobility survey of 250 former call centre agents in India's National Capital Region (September 2008) exploring individuals’ employment before, during and immediately after leaving India's high-profile call centre ‘industry’. These data are combined with forty-two in-depth interviews conducted in India's NCR (July 2006 to August 2008) with call centre agents, managers, ex-call centre agents, labour organizers and economic development officials, as well as representatives from different labour market intermediaries. The study gives a cautiously optimistic account about the call centre work and employment opportunities on offer in India's ‘IT Enabled Services – Business Processing Outsourcing’ (or ITES-BPO) industry, and their implications for young urban middle class graduates based on: (i) the movement of around one fifth of the ex-call centre agent sample into further study, facilitated by relatively high call centre salaries; (ii) the movement of ex-call centre agents into higher paying job roles in a wide range of sectors including banking, IT, insurance, marketing, real estate and telecommunications; and (iii) the development of transferable skills in Indian call centres that are recognized by ex-call centre agents and their subsequent employers as conferring a labour market advantage in other sectors of India's new Service Economy relative to colleagues without prior call centre work experience.

  • researching hybrid economic development geographies in practice methodological reflections from a collaborative project on india s new Service Economy
    Progress in Human Geography, 2011
    Co-Authors: Bhaskar Vira, Al James
    Abstract:

    In an increasingly globalized world, the long-standing intellectual division of labour between ‘economic’ geographers and ‘development’ scholars is becoming less tenable. This paper explores some of the practical implications and synergistic outcomes of developing a hybrid economic/development geography ‘trading zone’. Drawing on experiences from our collaborative research on India’s new Service Economy, we reflect on: our intellectual journey through this project from relatively conventional subdisciplinary start points; how we were forced to rethink those start points at each stage of the research project; and the wider implications of these experiences for contemporary debates on internal interdisciplinarity within human geography.