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apologies for crossposting IGU/RSAI mini conference Amsterdam, June 19-20, 2014 Globalisation and New Patterns of Services Sector Driven Growth The IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces is partnering with the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) for a joint scientific event aimed at extending international research and scholarship in geography, promoting international collaboration in research activity and the dissemination of research findings, and facilitating the transfer of knowledge, experience and expertise between countries and institutions ( http://uac.utoledo.edu/igu_commission/ ). Via the organisation of mini conferences the IGU committee and RSAI aims to bring together small groups of scholars for in-depth discussion on some of the latest issues in the field of economic geography. The 2014 Amsterdam IGU/RSAI mini conference aims to stimulate discussions on how recent changes in the ways business processes are organized have been reshaping the international division of labor. Digitization and advances in information and communication technologies enable firms to unbundle service business processes, and the increased global availability of sufficiently skilled labour allows for the relocation of particular business processes around the globe, leading to a new geography of services production. This conference welcomes contributions that deal with the drivers and the local outcomes (both in the global North and South) of the international reconfiguration of services production. More in particular we invite papers that address the following issues in different empirical and geographical contexts: · Service sector growth and regional development · Global production networks in service delivery · New geographies of service work · Local labour market impacts of the globalization of services production · Emergence of Southern cities as hubs for service delivery · Service work and the rise of a new middle class in developing countries · The rise of non-Western multinationals in service delivery · Service outsourcing and offshoring (and re-shoring) · Linkages and comparisons between the globalization of manufacturing and services production Abstracts Abstracts (300 words max.) should be submitted by January 31, 2014 to Niels Beerepoot: [log in to unmask] Registration Deadline for registration is April 1, 2014. Location This mini conference is organised by the Geographies of Globalisation research group of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and will take place in one of the venues of the University of Amsterdam in the historic center of Amsterdam. See attachment for further details or contact the organizers. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! Niels Beerepoot Jana Kleibert Bart Lambregts http://aissr.uva.nl/