An overview of the service industries' future (priorities: linking past and future)

2011

The innovative future of service industries in detail from any viewpoint or theoretical perspective forms the central subject matter for this special issue. One of the sectors considered to be relevant for favouring the growth of the international economy is the services sector. The relative ease with which services can be implanted in certain activities with notably less capital than that required for most industries, as well as the direct and indirect effects it generates on the job market, are factors that have brought about belief and reliance on this sector to provide a means of growth and a way of recovering from any international economic crisis, and in the future may prove to play a…