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. Most are based in universities and independent research institutes across Europe, but some are employed in private firms, as researchers or consultants.
But RESER is also determined to support PhD students involved in service related research as shown by the different initiatives taken in the last two years

President : Metka Stare (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Senior researcher
Vice-President : Markus Scheuer (Essen, G)
Researcher
Rheinisch Westfalisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Secretary : Patrik Ström (Sweden)
Professor in Economic Geography
Editing RESER website Marie-Christine Monnoyer (Toulouse, France)
Professor in business sciences,University of Toulouse 1
Treasurer: Jose Luis Navarro Espigares (Granada, Spain)
Departamento de Economía Aplicada

1. Approval of Budapest GA Minutes
2. Summary from the Gothenburg Conference
3. Council Activity Report 2009-2010
4. Priorities of RESER 2010 – 2011
5. Financial account and budget approval
6. Elections of new Council members
7. Call for candidacy for RESER 2013 and 2014 Annual Conference
8. Other

The Council has created a set of formal and transparent operational procedures (OP) that support the Statute and ensure that the intent of the Statute is followed by the Council. The OP document was...

Members of the RESER Council: John Bryson (University of Birmingham), Marie Christine Monnoyer (Université de Toulouse 1), José Luis Navarro-Espigares (University of Granada), Grete Rusten...

• Year 2008 (01/01/08 – 31/08/08) – Bank accounts Statement – Cash Statement – Surplus & Deficit Statement Detailed – Balance Sheet and S&D Statement – Budgetary deviation 2008...

RESER members come mostly from European countries but also from several non European countries that creates opportunities for research cooperation accross countries and continents

Denmark (Roskilde), Finland (Tampere, Helsinki), France (Aix en provence, Lille, Marne la Vallée, Toulouse), Germany (Essen, Stuttgart), Hungary (Bekescsaba, Budapest), Italy (Milano), Lithuania (Kaunas), The Netherlands (Amsterdam), Norway (Bergen), Poland (Wroclaw), Portugal (Lisbon, Beira), Romania (Bucharest), Slovenia (Ljubljana), Spain (Barcelona, Granada, Madrid), Sweden (Göteborg), Switzerland (Lausanne),United Kingdom (Birmingham, Manchester)
Reser is an association of research teams and individual active in services research and policy formation. Reser members come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds : economics, management sciences, geography, sociology, planning..

the Centre Lillois d’Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques(CLERSE) is a Joint Research Unit between the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille (USTL) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

Maria Savona is a Senior Lecturer at SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, UK. She is also Honorary Research Fellow at the Judge Business School, PRI - Programme on regional Innovation, University of Cambridge, UK. She is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Lille 1, France, on leave. She has collaborated with the Italian and French National Research Council, the University of Rome `La Sapienza', Max Planck Institute of Economics.

Grete.Rusten
Associated Professor and senior researcher
SNF Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration/ University of Bergen

P. Sjoholt
Professor emeritus, Dept of Geography,
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Admin.; University of Bergen

Metka Stare, PhD, Reser President
Senior research fellow
Center for International Relations
Faculty of Social Sciences,

As a researcher, you will through the RESER membership join an active research community. By joining us You will have the the possibility to collaborate with our research teams in different countries...

In 2006 RESER Council introduced commendations for lifelong achievements and
contributions to service-related research.

Each RESER member is entitled to nominate a candidate for the RESER award