We analyse the geographic localization and the productivity of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Italy, using both census data and balance-sheet data at the firm level. We find that KIBS are generally agglomerated in urban areas where they attain significantly higher labour...

As emerging markets increasingly play important roles in outsourcing, we focus on the complex relationships in the professional service outsourcing environment. Building on information processing and contingency theories, this paper contributes to the much-needed efforts in the study of...

Despite the growing interest to the field of coproduction from the service-dominant logic literature, this concept is still being emerging and most of the existing papers do not provide any empirical evidence. The aim of the study is to investigate whether those KIBS firms that involve their...

Service innovation, dynamic capability view, industrial services, it-support, industrial service innovation, innovation process, dynamic capabilities, new service development, service engineering, servitization, service business models, qualitative research, machine and plant engineering,...

This paper shows that evidence form existing research results on positive trade effects of a more homogeneous professional regulation cannot be transferred without restrictions to intra-European trade with professional services in the sectors of accounting, architectural, engineering and legal...

The current paper complements and extends traditional Penrosean theories of firm growth by examining how a (supplier) firm’s relational embeddedness with its portfolio of existing buyers affects its business growth. Our theorizing rests on the foundation that a firm’s business growth stems...