Exploring uneven development in producer service sectors: detailed evidence from the computer service industry in Britain

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2041-2068

  Coe, N M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; SERVICE SECTOR; UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032457357     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a302041     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. ACARD, 1986 Software: A Vital Key to UK Competitiveness Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (The Stationery Office, London)
2. Allen J, 1992, "Services and the UK space economy: regionalization and economic dislocation" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series 17 292-305
3. Barkham R, 1992, "Regional variations in entrepreneurship: some evidence from the United Kingdom" Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 4 225-244
4. Beyers W, 1989, "The producer services and economic development in the US: the last decade", final report for the US Department of Commerce; Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
5. Beyers W B, Alvine M J, 1985, "Export services in post industrial society" Papers of the Regional Science Association 57 33-45
6. Champion A G, 1989 Counterurbanisation: The Changing Pace and Nature of Population Deconcentration (Edward Arnold, London)
7. Coe N M, 1996a The Growth and Locational Dynamics of the UK Computer Services Industry, 1981-1996 unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Durham, Durham
8. Coe N M, 1996b, "Uneven development in the UK computer service industry since 1981" Area 28 64-77
9. Coe N M, 1997a, "US transnationals and the Irish software industry; assessing the nature, quality and stability of a new wave of foreign direct investment" European Urban and Regional Studies 4 211-230
10. Coe N M, 1997b, "Internationalisation, diversification and spatial restructuring in transnational computer service firms: case studies from the UK market" Geoforum 28 253-270
11. Coffey W J, Bailly A S, 1992, "Producer services and systems of flexible production" Urban Studies 29 857-868
12. Cooke P, 1988, "Flexible integration, scope economies, and strategic alliances: social and spatial mediations" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 6 281-300
13. Cooke P, Moulaert F, Swyngedouw E, Weinstein O, Wells P, 1992 Towards Global Localisation: The Computing and Communication Industries in Britain and France (UCL Press, London)
14. Cornish S L, 1995, " 'Marketing matters': the function of markets and marketing in the growth of firms and industries" Progress in Human Geography 19 317-337
15. Cornish S L, 1996, "Marketing software products: the importance of 'being there' and the implications for business service exports" Environment and Planning A 28 1661-1682
16. CSSA, 1995 Annual Review 1995 Computer Software and Services Association, 73/74 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6LE