SCIENCES SERVICES, MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING: ONE ANSWER TO THE EMERGENT SERVICES SECTOR
Abstract
The sector services are already the most important in the economy of the developed societies. In spite of it, the discussion on the professional management goes very late regarding the social and economic necessities of the organizations and the society. As part of this society, the University needs to elaborate answers to the demands of this emergent sector. At the beginning of this century a combined university and managerial discussion originated an academic new discipline: "Science, management and engineering of the services (SSME). In this work the role of the university in the development of this Science is presenteda) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
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