Intangibles and especially organisational capital are an important source of capital deepening in European countries, albeit with significant cross-country differences. The GDP in the EU27 area is 5.5% higher if certain categories of expenditure, which have until now been considered as current...

Economists, management researchers and sociologists have all examined the impact of the spread of information and communication technologies. There has until now, however, been relatively little interconnectivity and cross-fertilisation of their findings. The following paper attempts to derive a...

The rapid globalisation of the information economy has unleashed new pressures for increasing the tradabity of information services. There exists a large gap, however, between the rhetoric of the advocates of free trade in services and their protectionist practices.