Knowledge intensive business services and long term growth

Viewing Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Systems

This paper proposes that a general systems perspective may be used as a framework for viewing the KIBS offering. It is proposed that a system view to KIBS should recognize the main dimensions of service concept, service process, and service resources and infrastructure. In this light initial findings of a case research project are reported. Key findings are that in the KIBS service concept the ...

Branding of knowledge-intensive business services

Service customisation and standardisation in combinatory knowledge-intensive business services

The trade-off between customisation and standardisation in service offerings has been widely debated in the literatures on service in general and on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) specifically. Moving beyond this trade-off, this paper introduces a new type of service offering, called combinatory KIBS, distinguished by their capability to combine customisation and standardisation. ...

Knowledge-intensive business services and economic growth with endogenous market structure

The Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) sector has been growing in the US in the recent decades. KIBS are used to overcome the information friction between intermediate inputs and the input users that is generated by technology improvement. We use a Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous market structure to analyze the impacts of KIBS on economic growth and welfare. The model provi...

Assessing the strategic fit between business strategies and business relationships in knowledge-intensive business services

a r t i c l e i n f o Drawing on the configuration theoretic approach, we posit that firms can improve both relationship performance and their overall firm performance through leveraging the structure of their business relationships, i.e. by accurately aligning their relationship structure with their specific business strategy. In the context of this research, we focus on the structural element...