"This text is about how to manage and improve the operations in service organisations. The service sector is the largest part of most economies and is growing. Furthermore, service is an idea that is not confined to the service sector; it has important implications for all types of...

In August 2025, the European Union and the United States announced that they had agreed on a "Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade". The Framework Agreement remains vulnerable due to unresolved conflicts over the EU's treatment of US service providers, however. This...

Indonesia’s services sector has emerged as a key driver of economic growth and employment. Services have also been the driving force of global trade and investment. Advances in technology are expected to further improve the tradability of services, creating new opportunities for Indonesia....

Inflation in Türkiye has been high since 2021. This paper investigates the sources of this inflation and the impact of mitigating exchange rate volatility. Two main findings emerge. First, there has been a significant divergence in inflation dynamics across CPI components since late 2021—in...

Global value chains have recently changed structurally ("servicification")-that is, service sectors' involvement in global value chain processes has become more intensive. We quantify services trade restrictions' contribution to underdevelopment of global value chain servicification across Asian...