In the spirit of the famous aphorism associatedto Galileo’s thought, the aim of this paper is tooffer a simple, updated balance on the impactsand effects, in terms of growth and development,associated to service sector in the economic systems.Nowadays, service industries account foran increasing share of value added, employment,and capacity of redistributing resourcesthat affect countries’ performance. The role ofinnovation, the environmental changes keen ona less mass production, the de-materialisationof final productions are relevant aspects in achanging world. This is particularly true in thescenario of our recent recession which pushedfirms to identify new processes of organisationof the ways goods and services are produced.Thus, globalisation and the continuous growthof the standards of living emphasised a largerrole of services in place, sometimes in additionto, the manufacturing activities. The potentialof competitiveness and growth of the moderneconomies is therefore strongly affected by theevolving path taking place in the service sector,both in the business related services and in thepersonal care ones.[...]

Per un’economia dei servizi. Eppur si muove!

MORELLI, Giovanna
2011-01-01

Abstract

In the spirit of the famous aphorism associatedto Galileo’s thought, the aim of this paper is tooffer a simple, updated balance on the impactsand effects, in terms of growth and development,associated to service sector in the economic systems.Nowadays, service industries account foran increasing share of value added, employment,and capacity of redistributing resourcesthat affect countries’ performance. The role ofinnovation, the environmental changes keen ona less mass production, the de-materialisationof final productions are relevant aspects in achanging world. This is particularly true in thescenario of our recent recession which pushedfirms to identify new processes of organisationof the ways goods and services are produced.Thus, globalisation and the continuous growthof the standards of living emphasised a largerrole of services in place, sometimes in additionto, the manufacturing activities. The potentialof competitiveness and growth of the moderneconomies is therefore strongly affected by theevolving path taking place in the service sector,both in the business related services and in thepersonal care ones.[...]
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