Service industries

The service industry is, in certain key respects, different from the manufacturing industry. A need exists for service research in Saudi Arabia so that industry is in a position to enter a new stage of high competition in the era of globalization where limits no longer exist and…

This dissertation comprises three essays representing three perspectives on viewing structural changes in the economy: macro, meso, and micro perspectives. The main objective of the first essay is to analyze changes in the pattern of intersectoral linkages, whether the changes w…