We are immensely grateful to the following for their comments either on the ideas contained
in this book or upon the manuscript itself: Nick Abercrombie, Ash Amin, Ulrich Beck, Alistair …

Two opposing views of service-led development contend, on the one hand, that services can
be a propulsive force in rural economic development and, on the other, that services are …

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services
and goods are produced and consumed. One of the key drivers of this change is information …

This article reviews the work of the 'Knowledge-intensive Services and Innovation'(KISINN)
Network, which examined the regional incidence of 'knowledge-intensive business …

The impact of high-speed rail (HSR) on the development of peripheral cities remains
debated. Based on China data from 2008 to 2017, this article constructs an HSR operation …

While the flexible production literature has become increasingly abundant in recent years,
the vast majority of it is narrowly restricted to manufacturing activities, entirely ignoring the …

Abstract K EEBLE D., B RYSON J. and W OOD P.(1991) Small firms, business services
growth and regional development in the United Kingdom: some empirical findings, Reg …

Producer services employment has grown rapidly within advanced economies in recent
years. The bases of demand related to this growth are not well understood by regional …

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 …

The 'geography of law'is an emerging subdiscipline within human geography. However, the
'geography of law firms' and their functional capabilities remains strangely neglected in both …