Following drastic shifts in the spatial organization of the production of goods, increasingly fierce competition now forces firms to look critically at how the production of services is organized. This cutting edge book explores how digitization and advances in information and communication have enabled firms to unbundle service business processes, and how the increased global availability of sufficiently skilled labour has facilitated the relocation of ever more of these processes around the world. It will be of interest to scholars and policy practitioners alike working in Geography, Economics, Labour Studies and Development Studies.

1. "Globalisation and New Patterns of Services Sector Driven Growth": Introduction

Part I: Services and Globalisation

2. Mapping World Trade Flows in Business Services

3. Services and Growth in Developing Countries: a Kaldorian Analysis

4. Online Services - An Equalising Force between the Global North and the Global South

Part II: The Changing Role of Services in the Global North

5. Knowledge-based Services and Economic Development: Contributions to Growth and Resilience in European Regions

6. The Dynamics of Service FDI Location: A Disaggregated Industry Analysis for Great Britain

7. Reducing Quality Uncertainty in the Amsterdam Field of Restaurants

8. Offshoring, Outsourcing and Services FDI in Europe's 'Old Periphery': Probing the Experience of Northern Ireland

9. New Kids on the Block? The Emerging Global Mosaic of Cultural Production

Part III: Service-led Modernisation in the Global South

10. Changing Geographies of Services - The case of South Africa: towards Regional Value Chains?

11. Services Offshoring and Skill Development in Emerging Economies: some Evidence from Metro Manila, Philippines

12. Beyond Call Centres: the Indirect Effects of Service Sector-driven Growth on New Middle Class Consumption and Retail in Mumbai

13. Conclusions: Trends and Ways Forward in Service Sector Driven Growth

Niels Beerepoot is Assistant Professor in Economic Geography at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Bart Lambregts is post-doc researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He lectures on urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture of Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Jana Kleibert is post-doc researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) in Erkner, Germany, and is honorary research fellow at the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester, UK.