Flexible Accumulation and the Rise of Business Services
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter A Wood, Peter Wood (0000-0002-1733-8900, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 160-160 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/622611 |
| OpenAlex | W2092717652 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
In spite of the economic and social significance of the switch to service employment in recent decades, the role of services in modern processes of spatial transformation is still theoretically marginalized. Service changes are clearly implicated in the emergence of new forms of capital accumulation, and therefore in modem patterns of spatial inequality. Business service functions form a growing element in the expertise supporting rhodem capitalism, which also includes that directly employed by their client organizations. Business service growth is seen as one facet of the 'flexible' use of skilled labour resources, possessing its own powerful dynamic, based in expertise that even large organizations cannot command. Capitalist accumulation is increasingly dominated by the contract between capital and expert labour. Among the important implications for contemporary change of the growth of business services, those considered here relate to trends in the organization of production, in patterns of technological change, in the relative roles of large and small firms, and in employment. Socially and geographically, the growth of independent business service functions exerts strong pressures towards the polarization of the quality of labour demand and economic opportunity
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Entrepreneurship, Geography of
The Potential Bias in Producer Service Employment Estimates
Knowledge-bases, places, spatial configurations and the performance of knowledge-intensive professional service firms
The regional significance of knowledge-intensive services in europe
Agglomeration of knowledge intensive business services and urban productivity
Regional labour flows between manufacturing and business services
Producer services
Critical reviews of geographical perspectives on business organizations and the organization of production
A Hierarchical Change Model of Business and Professional Services in the United States
Abandoning Madison Avenue
The contradictions of flexibility
New York
Regional production, information–communication technology, and the developmental state
Integrating Finance into Global Production Networks
Manufacturing Demand for Business Services in a Core and Peripheral Region
Small Firms, Borrowed Size and the Urban‐Rural Shift
Globalization of Production and Innovation
The Competitiveness of Business Service Firms
Introduction
The Creation and Growth of Small Business Service Firms in Post-Industrial Britain
Lending Jobs to Global Cities
Producer Services and Systems of Flexible Production
The Potential Bias in Producer Service Employment Estimates
Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late 20th Century
Toward More Flexible Organization
The Location and Concentration of Businesses in Britain
Debunking the Myth of Localized Agglomerations
Geographical Perspectives on Producer Service Industry Research in Australia
Producer services and the ‘mixed‐market’ problem
Towards a Critical Geography of Flexibility
Geographies of Subcontracting
Internationalisation by Business Service Firms
The Role of Services in Urban and Regional Development
Exploring Uneven Development in Producer Service Sectors
Girls in the Office
The Geography of International Trade in Services
Regional Patterns of Small Firm Development in the Business Services
Flexibly Specialized Agencies? Reflexivity, Identity, and the Advertising Industry
International Engineering Services 1982-92
The Long Arm of the Law
The Producer Service Complex of Edmonton
Revisiting High-Waged Labour Market Demand in the Global Cities
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2019 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |