RESER is a network of research groups and individuals active in services research and policy formulation, mainly located in European countries. The Association was established in 1988 at a time when service employment and industries were under-researched and there was a limited understanding of the role that services played in economic and social restructuring. RESER members come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds: economics, management sciences, geography, sociology, psychology, political sciences and planning.

 

Globalisation, international trade, outsourcing
Knowledge, innovation and ICT
Employment, skills, training
Productivity and service macroeconomics
Markets, quality, prices, regulations
Service management, networks and marketing
Non-market services, new public management
Territorial, urban and regional studies of services
Structural change and tertiarisation processes
Public-private partnerships and services provision