ABSTRACT
As internationalisation of services continues to gain momentum it poses some new research questions. These include its effects on, and contribution to, trade in services (Noyelle and Dutka 1986); its consequences for the division of labour (Bertrand and Noyelle 1986), for methods of delivery, and for access to the specialist knowledge embodied in many of these services. The spatial consequences of these processes are also important both at the global level (Dunning and Norman 1987; Noyelle and Dutka 1987) and within national space economies (Daniels, Leyshon andThrift 1986), especially for the relative growth of the urban areas that are usually the focus of locational choice by services choosing to operate offshore. Such choices will clearly be associated with employment effects, the reinforcement of information and related linkages, and the stimulation of commercial office and residential property markets (see for example, Noyelle 1986, 1987).
