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| Author: | Roach, S. S. |
| Title: | Technology and the services sector : the hidden competitive challenge. |
| Journal: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change
1988 : DEC, VOL. 34:4, p. 387-403 |
| Index terms: | SERVICE INDUSTRIES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Over the course of contemporary economic history, the services sector has emerged as a major force in shaping capital formation in the United States. During the 1970s and 1980s, however, a sizeable gap has opened between the investment programs of the goods-producing and services-producing sectors, in favour of the latter segment. At present, services-providing industries account for nearly 60 per cent of the total outlays on plant and equipment. There can be little debate over the services sector's mounting reliance on information technology. On the other hand, services providers as a whole have experienced a clear slowdown in productivity growth in the 1980s. |
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