La Conférence 2010 du RESER se tiendra à Goteborg (Suède). Elle est organisée par l'université de Göteborg ,School of Business, Economics and Law
Thème de la conférence :
La résilience des activités de services dans une économie globalisée
Les sujets suivants seront abordés au cours de la conférence
-Les Services comme moteur du développement économique régional
-Les services dans le commerce International , Investissements à l'étranger et achats internationalisés de services
-Entre l'industrie manufacturière et les services d'avant garde, l'interface des activités créatrices de valeur.
-Services publics et privés dans une économie de type état providence
-Qu'apporte à la croissance économique les activités de création et de culture ?
During the financial and real economy melt down that the world has experienced over the last two years, almost all sectors have been hurt. Governments have struggled to keep the financial sector floating as well as creating a viable environment for business. Trade in goods and services have suffered and calls have been raised not to give in to pressures of economic nationalism and isolation, but rather to promote free trade and investment.
These challenges have increased the interest in and importance of resilience. Resilience refers to the capability and capacity of social (individuals, firms, regions, etc) and physical urban systems to withstand change. Resilience is a core concept in ecology, environmental sciences and psychology and is becoming central to debates that address social, community, ecological and economic resilience to environmental and socio-economic risk. Resilience operates on three levels. First generation resilience is the ability of systems to absorb shocks and to recover rapidly. Second generation resilience focuses on community resilience and the extent to which businesses, local government, community groups and citizens cope with and respond to change. Third generation resilience is the ability of individuals, businesses, governments and communities to anticipate shocks and ultimately embed resilience through adaptation within everyday activities.
Due to the importance of the service sectors in the advanced economies they will play a vital role for the economic recovery, stabilization and turn around. They can both act as facilitators for economic resilience on various levels and show resilience as a more specific sector of the economy. The same is true for the growth in emerging markets. The resilience and innovativeness of the service economy will help to determine the long-term development of the economy as a whole. Knowledge intensive services constitute the platform of interconnection with advanced manufacturing, and regional economic development policies have to take further notice of the potential of the service industry. Areas that have been negatively affected through the downturn might reposition themselves to take advantage of services and service innovation. Innovative services are expected to play a major role in the restructuring and recovery of economies in the years ahead. Here it is necessary to explore and envisage what services will be able to have a long lasting economic impact and how this will reshape regional structures. Questions regarding the creative and cultural sectors must also be put into the perspective of economic development in combination with other forms of the experience economy such as tourism. In general, increased entrepreneurship connected to the service industry will also affect the possibility for economic resilience.
Another area that will help to determine the resilience of the global service economy in is trade and investment. An increasing challenge will face international service firms operating in a multicultural setting. Regulatory aspects need to be studied in order to better understand how they can facilitate trade and investment within services. Company strategy within various service sectors is another area that needs to be further studied in relation to the development of specific services and the choice of location. Also, cross-disciplinary attempts at combining management decisions, location and industry development within services have to play more important role.
Increased complexity between manufacturing and services has made it difficult to distinguish among clear cut categorizations. Rather the challenge lies within understanding and analyzing the value-added activities. This can be studied using an internal perspective that is focusing on a firm, or by an external perspective taking into account a complex web of activities. Knowledge creation can appear at different locations and through globalization be put to work in complex production networks. The recent downturn has showed the importance of sustainability of these networks if regions and individual firms are to show economic resilience.
The recent crisis has also shown the importance of the public sector service operations. The execution of new strategic policies to support the economy has been vital. In order for these policies to be effective the organization and innovative capability within the public sector services has to be improved. It has also brought new challenges to the development of the welfare state and social security systems. Countries need to tackle the problem of aging populations, climate change and environmental challenges along with increased financial pressure.
In all above mentioned service fields, issues concerning necessary structural changes, innovation processes, pricing, collaboration models, as well as issues on how to approach these questions scientifically arise. Since its first international conference in 1990, the RESER research community has sought to identify and explore new service trends in a multidisciplinary context. The RESER conference is interested in studies ranging from the micro to the macro level.
les propositions qui sont consacrées aux thèmes proposées sont particulièrement attendues
Ils peuvent être conceptuel, empirique ou méthodologique. Les recherches peuvent s'appuyer sur des approches multidisciplinaires (sociologie, géographie, gestion, économie, sciences politiques .
Les doctorants sont les bienvenus.
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