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Service activities: reviewing concepts and typologies

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  • Anita Kon

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This paper investigates some basic aspects about the traditionally used definitionsand classifications of service activities. The first part of the paper evaluates someessential transformations concerning service activities, which are occurring in the productiveprocesses, in the nature of the product, in consumption and in the market, since the advanceof recent technological innovations. It stresses the difficulty to measure and analyze thoserecent economic evolutions, by using the traditional conceptions. Following, it proposes arevision and up-dating of the concepts, in order to adapt them to the new role performed bythis sector in the worldwide productive context. JEL Classification: L80; B41.

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  • Anita Kon, 1999. "Service activities: reviewing concepts and typologies," Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Center of Political Economy, vol. 19(2), pages 307-328.
    • Handle: RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:19:y:1999:i:2:p:307-328:id:1057
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    Keywords

    Services; globalization;

    JEL classification:

    • L80 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - General
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology

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