accept higher financing costs in order to preserve their financial independence. -- Corporate financing ; innovation ; family …

characteristic for their competitive environment. This is particularly the case for knowledge-intensive service providers, product …

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i … to the probability of service innovation. The results stay robust if former innovation activity and general openness to … new technologies are controlled for. -- Enterprise systems ; service innovation ; customized enterprise software ; sector …

We characterize a monopolist's optimal offer of service plans when only informed customers know already at the … subsequently allow them to more flexibly adjust their consumed quantity of the service. The presence of uninformed costumers makes … quantity of the consumed service. We find that uninformed customers benefit from the presence of informed customers, even …

and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software … has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information- and Communication Technology (ICT … social software and service innovation. Since this result is robust when controlling for former innovative activities and the …