The service sector is extraordinarily heterogeneous. Since existing service classifications provide useful yet partial perspectives on this diversity, this paper reconciles and integrates distinct service taxonomies into a coherent and pragmatic typology which follows three dimensions: demand orientation, knowledge-intensity and technology-intensity. A regional analysis of services employment i...

In the servicizing economy, enterprises are required to have an improving cycle system including the customer side as well. But service evaluation that are not connected process is not interpreted to the structure of service evaluation and process. Therefore, we propose the integrated method of business process modeling and web questionnaire. In this here, we constructed two models for describi...

The ongoing trend towards a global services economy creates considerable market opportunities and challenges for providers of Software-as-aService (SaaS). For meeting customer expectations, an on-demand business model and a service-oriented infrastructure capable of composing services into service networks are the primary approach. Ensuring quality of service and providing detailed guarantees v...

The service sector of the US economy has been gaining importance. As the service sector evolves, the study of service supply chain starts to gain attention. In this study, we conduct an exploratory review on the studies of manufacturing and service supply chains. We focus on the studies that explore the differences and commonalities between manufacturing and service supply chains. We combine op...

India is much more integrated with the world economy. Both current and capital accounts are complementing to each other. The economic slowdown that appears to have begun in the USA in September, 2008 has some negative impact on Indian economy. The most immediate and adverse effect of this global financial crisis on India is an out flow of Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) from the capital ...

Computational Grids are a promising platform for executing large-scale resource intensive applications. However, resource management and scheduling in the Grid environment is a complex undertaking as resources are (geographically) distributed, heterogeneous in nature, owned by different individuals or organizations with their own policies, have different access and cost models, and have dynamic...

There is an enormous stress on livelihood analysis of rural communities and their economies. Village common property resources (CPRs) have played a substantial economic role for the sustenance in rural areas of the drylands. The CPRs of drylands of western Rajasthan shows a varied range of habitats due to strong functional disparities in topographic, geomorphological, climatic, edaphic and phys...

The growth of the service economy in advanced and developing economies has created new economic landscapes. These landscapes are not only built forms, they are job generators and new sources of economic power for the regions that house them. This service economy is variegated, with differing sources of demand, and varying geographies of supply. A dynamic sector in this milieu is the evolving pr...

The advances in Internet, information and communication technologies have become the catalyst for the creation of the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy has brought about a whole range of opportunities and excitement and the changing roles of information professionals has been a result of these inevitable forces. In this study, we examine the changing roles of paraprofessionals in the kno...

Under the rapid development of sharing economy, performance is important for the prosperity of this innovative commercial model. However, the performance in sharing economy is less discussed in the academic field. Revenue and occupancy rate are widely applied as two ideal measures of performance in hospitality market. This study tries to fill the research gaps with both two measurements. Based ...