ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book deals with different categories of services and shows how basically each of them is highly dynamic and capable of adopting different roles both in space and in time. It explains how contemporary dynamics in services production generate new interdependencies between countries and regions across the globe, how they play a role in economic crisis mitigation and recovery in the Global North, and how they foster economic development and service sector-driven modernisation processes in the Global South. The book shows how emerging economies are slowly becoming more important as exporters of cultural industries products. It demonstrates how in Europe employment growth largely takes place in knowledge-based and in leisure-based services. The book explains how work in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector stimulates the acquisition of generic skills which workers should be able to utilise in their future employment outside the BPO sector.
