Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Heft36 1 - SFB 580 - Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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PÉTER LITERATUR CSIZMADIA<br />
1. GLOBAL CHANGES IN THE WORLD ECONO-<br />
MY: EMERGING SERVICE ECONOMY<br />
6<br />
ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATIONS IN THE<br />
HUNGARIAN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE<br />
BUSINESS SERVICE SECTOR:<br />
LESSONS FROM A COMPANY SURVEY<br />
In the last few decades, the world economy<br />
has undergone a structural transformation<br />
process that can be described by an<br />
increasing role of the service sector within the<br />
national economies at the expense of manufacturing.<br />
According to the OECD, in 2005<br />
the contribution of services to the GDP in the<br />
developed economies was around 70% with remarkable<br />
country differences (OECD 2007).<br />
The proportion of services in the economic<br />
output in the case of the USA is close to 80%,<br />
while it remains below 60% in South-Korea.<br />
In Hungary, services produce 65% of the<br />
GDP, which is around the European average.<br />
The position of the country is better than the<br />
Czech Republic or Slovakia but lags behind the<br />
Benelux-states and the Nordic countries. Table<br />
1 illustrates the growing economic role of the<br />
service sector in some OECD-countries.<br />
Péter Csizmadia<br />
When evaluating the growing international<br />
importance of services, it is important to call<br />
attention to the changing internal structure<br />
of the sector, e.g. the increasing share of<br />
business services representing higher valueadded<br />
activities. Another important factor<br />
shaping the global economy is the different<br />
development dynamics of the manufacturing<br />
and service sectors. Globally, the service sector<br />
achieved 23.6% productivity growth<br />
accompanied by a 20.2 % employment<br />
increase. On the other hand, 28.8 %<br />
productivity growth and a 22.8 %<br />
employment decline were registered<br />
in the manufacturing sector (Sako, 2006).<br />
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Another important tendency is that the