Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development

Acquisition and organization of information, thereby creating useful knowledge, is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms (and other organizations). The knowledge requirements of firms motivate the variety of approaches to organizational structure, their relationships to other organizations, the location of their operations, and their entry into new markets. Because the nature of knowledge requirements varies by service sector and organizational context, there is a need for more studies that explore the nature of these contingent relationships. In this book, an international and interdisciplinary team of leading scholars examines the attributes of knowledge acquisition and diffusion within and across service-providing organizations. They give particular attention to the processes of internationalization and the ways in which service-providing organizations affect regional economic development.Harrington, James W. is the author of 'Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalization and Regional Development ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780754648970 and ISBN 0754648974.