European Computer Services

Christopher J. S. Gentle

Chapter 4 in After Liberalisation, 1996, pp 60-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Although the computer services industry1 is seen as an increasingly significant sector of activity in terms of technological development and competitive advantage, its strategic and policy value within Europe has always been underplayed. This may have been for a number of reasons relating to preconceptions about the industry: it was seen as following technological developments in the wider information technology (IT) industry. As a ‘service’ activity, its locational distribution was also seen to closely reflect the distribution of demand via the need for close customer contact, language and cultural factors: local demand was met by local supply. In turn, as a reflection, trade in computer services was low, with one estimate in the mid-1980s putting domestic demand accounting for 90 per cent or more of the market2.

Keywords: European Union; Public Procurement; Market Segmentation; National Market; Computer Service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-24843-8_4

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