Approaches to Pricing Design Services: Evidence from Architectural Firms in Nigeria

Knowledge Centers in Professional Services Firms: Design and Empirical Evidence

Complementing knowledge management (KM) initiatives, specialized service units can support intra-organizational knowledge transfer by conducting research, offering edited contents, or participating in internal networks. This research concentrates specifically on the knowledge center (KC) model, thus following Hertlein et al., whose blueprint is evaluated and further developed by building on a m...

From architectural requirements to architectural design

Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of serviceproducing firms in the U.K. Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs (offshore production) and they may impact the productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore productive tasks to immigrant workers. The ...

Introduction to innovation in Architectural Characteristics of urban building from Bionic Design Approach

Biology has been a brilliant teacher and a precious textbook to man-made construction for thousands of years, because it allows one to learn and be inspired by nature’s remarkable and efficient structural systems. Concepts unfortunately have this in common that in general use often specifies incorrectly some phenomena. There was a turning point in each period of time which human has discovered ...

From Architectural to Behavioural Specification of Services

Many efforts are currently devoted to provide software developers with methods and techniques that can endow serviceoriented computing with systematic and accountable engineering practices. To this purpose, a number of languages and calculi have been proposed within the S project that address different levels of abstraction of the software engineering process. Here, we report on two such...