Goods and services, that is, products

Autor: Maurizio Rispoli, Michele Tamma
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Sinergie Italian Journal of Management. :203-219
ISSN: 0393-5108
DOI: 10.7433/s100.2016.12
Popis: The profound changes taking place in the world of production in the last quarter of (the 20th) century are putting into relief, among other things, some significant contradictions and inadequacies in the theories that have dominated economic analysis and interpretation in recent decades. This explains the efforts from various analytical perspectives currently devoted to “updating” theories that address the behavior of production organizations, based on data provided by empirical evidence and grounded in contextual and procedural approaches. Within this context, the purpose of the present article is to dispute the separation between goods and services as a necessary starting point for any economic analysis. This separation still appears largely rooted in, and related to, the juxtaposition of materiality (generally associated with goods) and immateriality (generally associated with services)…. (to be continued)
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