Service business accounts for more than 75 per cent of the wealth and employment created in most developed market economies. This interdisciplinary Handbook provides a critical and multi-disciplinary review of current service business processes and practices. Broadening our understanding of...

The Handbook of Manufacturing Industries in the World Economy provides a critical and multi-disciplinary state-of-the-art review and analysis of current manufacturing processes, practices and policies. Expanding our knowledge and understanding of production and innovation, this volume...

Contents: Preface: timing and placing regeneration economies -- 1. Dynamics and city-region regeneration economies: shaping the directions of a new research agenda / Lauren Andres and John R. Bryson -- 2. Regenerating regional economies: trade in goods and services and people / Geoffrey J.D....