The objective of this work is to examine the various aspects related to the market implementation of emerging demand-side servitized energy services. To provide context, the motivations, benefits, risks, and technical challenges related to energy service servitization are analyzed in detail from...

The European Central Bank (ECB) acknowledges that the use of cloud services offers various benefits to supervised entities. Compared to internal information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, cloud services are cost efficient, scalable, secure due to providers using cutting-edge...

Internationale Unternehmen können durch die Verlagerung ihrer Business Development-Anstrengungen in nachhaltige regionale High Tech- & High Service-Cluster eine Verbesserung ihrer Business Development-Erfolge im Bereich innovativer nachhaltiger Geschäftsmodelle erzielen. Der vorliegende...

Capabilities enable performance, but how does their absence constrain performance? We ask this critical question as firms continuously adapt to the fast-evolving environment, refreshing their capabilities. Studying outsourcing service provider capabilities in digital transformational outsourcing...

This paper describes 52 manufacturing and business services sectors in eight CESEE countries. It analyzes their size, value-added content, technological level, productivity and labor resources used, identifying sectors with high levels of productivity and value-added content. Developing these...

Purpose: Machine manufacturers can enhance their revenues by providing outcome-based contracts (OBCs) that focus on delivering the outcome associated with machine performance. Although OBCs are gaining traction, structured taxonomies of decision criteria to guide their design remain...

This Policy Brief looks at the latest trends in services trade and tries to show their importance, in its various manifestations, for virtually all countries in the world. The paper starts with a short history of trade in services across centuries. Fast forward to today's realities, the paper...

A research gap exists regarding how research and development (R&D) expenditures contribute to the generation of innovative spillovers through knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), particularly within the manufacturing and business services subsectors. These spillovers have a networking...

This contribution develops critique from analysing forms of misconduct by knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms, especially the largest, globally located and client-interactive on all five continents. Management consultancy infractions range from supplying spurious advice, to...

This Policy Brief looks at the latest trends in services trade and tries to show their importance, in its various manifestations, for virtually all countries in the world. The paper starts with a short history of trade in services across centuries. Fast forward to today's realities, the paper...

Big Four accounting firms increasingly focus on non-audit services. Failures in these services may impair the accounting firm’s reputation as an auditor. They may negatively affect the Big Four, its clients, and client stakeholders. From the perspective of critical scholarship, it is vital to...

We construct an instrumental variable for the Internet penetration rate using China's "8-horizontal-8-longitudinal" optical cable network to identify the impact of the Internet on the agglomeration of producer services in cities. We find that, (i) the Internet promotes the agglomeration of...

This pilot study investigates the contributions of an airport service provider from Romania specializing in ground handling, operations, and passenger services towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recognizing the critical role of service providers in the...

We propose a model of sharing of public services among local governments. Our model is an application of Nicolo et al. (2023) and combines features of two models: assignment games (Shapley and Shubik (1971)) and the division problem (Sprumont (1991)). We provide an algorithm (The Simple SAM)...

Manufacturing companies have recently been seeking differentiation and profit enhancement through the servitization of products. The service economy, with the increase in its proportion of service sector in the total employment and values added, is also accelerating in the developed countries....

This study investigates whether the provision of non-audit services (NAS) is associated with accounting quality and whether political connection moderates the relationship between the NAS and accounting quality. The sample includes 2,245 firm-year observations from Malaysia during the period...