Hijzen, Alex; Pisu, Mauro; Upward, Richard; Wright, Peter - 2007
. Initially, this phenomenon was associated
with manufacturing activities, but firms are increasingly able to fragment service …. Hijzen and Swaim (2007a)
show, using industry-level data for the manufacturing sector in a range of OECD countries,
that … firms which
are importing and exporting services. The most striking feature is that firms in manufacturing
industries are …