services as well as in house services on total factor productivity growth in Austrian manufacturing, based on an approach … suggested by Feenstra Hanson (1999). The results suggest a positive and significant impact of services outsourcing on TFP growth …

and the provision of services. Second, it provides an econometric assessment of the determinants of servitization for … characteristics. Both the theoretical model and empirical estimates point to a non-linear relationship between servitization and firm … productivity. The relationship is further shaped by the sector environment as well as intrinsic characteristics of the goods and …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …