scholarly journals The Relationship between Comparative Advantage in High Value-Added Products and Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (0) ◽  
pp. 223-253
Author(s):  
Tatsushi Waragai
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Value Added Products

scholarly journals The breadth of business model reconfiguration and firm performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 147612702095513
Author(s):  
Panos Desyllas ◽  
Ammon Salter ◽  
Oliver Alexy
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Past Performance ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
The Relationship

Looking at business models as systems of interdependent elements, we study how the breadth of an incumbent firm’s business model reconfiguration influences its performance. Drawing on the metaphor of firms searching on a performance landscape, we argue that the relationship between business model reconfiguration breadth and performance should form an inverted U-shape. While firms can gain from increasing business model reconfiguration breadth, these benefits need to be traded-off against the increasing complexity of its associated changes. We further predict that this inverted U-shape will flip for highly performing firms while being amplified for firms heavily active in innovation. Using data from an original survey of knowledge-intensive business services firms, we find that, on average, business model reconfiguration has little effect on performance. However, U-shaped effects clearly emerge when accounting for the effects of past performance and innovative activity. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of the conditional nature of the advantages stemming from business model reconfiguration.

AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES AND PERFORMANCE IN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (02) ◽  
pp. 457-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
CUI ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
It Services ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Most studies on the relationship between agglomeration economies and economic performance have focussed on regions in general or manufacturing. Very few papers have considered the impacts of agglomeration economies on the economic performance of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms. We propose a theoretical framework based on the characteristics of KIBS to study the precise channels through which KIBS firms benefit from specialization externalities and diversity externalities. The empirical evidence based on the software and IT services industry in China, a very dynamic branch of KIBS, shows that firms benefit from service diversity externalities but not specialization externalities, consistent with the idea of “nursery cities”.

scholarly journals Knowledge-intensive business services and innovation performance in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Bonomi Santos
Keyword(s):  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation Outcomes ◽  
Analyze Data

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the way different economic sectors in Brazil use knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and explore which features of KIBS use are associated with better innovation outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Clusters and regression analyses were used to analyze data from the national innovation survey (PINTEC) from 2014. Findings The results show that most of the 55 sectors of the Brazilian economy studied make little use of KIBS, but industries in which firms that interact with KIBS providers also have better innovation performance and offer more innovative offerings. The relationship with higher education institutions and research institutes proved particularly relevant, while the interaction with consultancy firms seems to be a strategy that leaves firms “stuck in the middle”. Originality/value The outcomes confirm the arguments of the literature that the use of KIBS has positive outcomes for customer firms. More importantly, however, the paper complements the existing literature by showing that the type of KIBS used in each country is relevant to understand firms’ innovation performance. The outcomes can guide firms and public policy initiatives oriented at the articulation of the national innovation system.

Impact of Digitalization on Service Work in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: An Empirical Study in Tax Consultancies

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Philipp K. Görs ◽  
Henning Hummert ◽  
Anne Traum ◽  
Friedemann W. Nerdinger
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Special Case

Digitalization is a megatrend, but there is relatively little knowledge about its consequences for service work in general and specifically in knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). We studied the impact of digitalization on psychological consequences for employees in tax consultancies as a special case of KIBS. We compare two tax consulting jobs with very different job demands, those of tax consultants (TCs) and assistant tax consultants (ATCs). The results show that the extent of digitalization at the workplace level for ATCs correlates significantly positively with their job satisfaction. For TCs, the same variable correlates positively with their work engagement. These positive effects of digitalization are mediated in the case of ATCs by the impact on important job characteristics. In the case of TCs, which already have very good working conditions, the impact is mediated by the positive effect on self-efficacy. Theoretical and practical consequences of these results are discussed.

Productivity dispersion in the Italian knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industry: a multilevel analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenico Campisi ◽  
Paolo Mancuso ◽  
Stefano Luigi Mastrodonato ◽  
Donato Morea
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Multifactor Productivity ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Business Sectors

PurposeThis paper aims to provide an analysis of the productivity evolution of a sample of 18,459 knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms operating in Italy over the period 2012–2018. The interaction between productivity heterogeneity firm localization and firm sector of business are also analyzed.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical setting is based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the multifactor productivity index (MPI) and on the multilevel models to investigate if the source of productivity heterogeneity among the Italian KIBS are due to the geographic location and/or to the specific business sectors in which firms operate. Data have been gathered from the AIDA database, which contains financial data of all Italian firms.FindingsThe empirical results show that MPI heterogeneity in the Italian KIBS firms' is sensitive to the regional context in which firms operate to the specific KIBS sector and above all at the interactions arising between region and sector.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to identify the source of productivity dispersion in the Italian KIBS.

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