Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific

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Contents: Preface Services and developments in the Asia-Pacific: introduction and overview, Peter W. Daniels and James W. Harrington. Part I Dynamics of Economic Spaces: The Services Dimension: Change on the agglomeration of service firms in a metropolitan area: a case study of graphic design firms in Melbourne, 1981a 2001, Peter Elliott and Kevin O'Connor Development of the 'third form' of car-making producer services industry in Shanghai, China and its locational factors, Yufang Shen Metropolitan cities as the innovation centres of knowledge-intensive business services: the case of Seoul in Korea, Ji-Sun Choi Locational patterns of information technology services in Japan, Noburu Hayashi. Part II External Regulation of Services within Value Chains: State market and the growth of services industries in metropolitan Guangzhou, Fiona F. Yang and George C.S. Lin SIA and Singapore: competition, changes in organization and technologies and the impacts on economic development, Shuang Yann Wong Integrating foreign-owned firms into global value chains: a case study of the Window Korea project in China, Shuguang Liu and Guogang Ren Transformation of an industry stimulated by local economic growth policy: the case of the SHOCHU (liquor) industry in Japan, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Hideo Mori and Koshi Hachikubo. Part III Internal Regulation and Policies for Services: Reluctant state, decentralised markets and underdeveloped communities: the construction of the futures trading industry in Taiwan, Pin-Hsien Chen and Jinn-Yuh Hsu Networked governance for global economic participation: the case of New Zealand's largest city, Steffen Wetzstein Lowering the professional frontier: a service market in development in Ahmedabad, India, Harald Bekkers Index.