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other characteristics that raise management problems and are amenable to institutional-economic analysis. …
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We develop a new analytical framework for both cross-border services trade and services trade through foreign affiliates, based on heterogeneous firms operating under oligopoly. This leads to direct predictions about choice of services delivery (mode of delivery) at the firm level, and about the...
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Services are characterised by the integration of customers while the service is produced. This integration leads to interruptions in the processing of a customer order until the customer provides the missing input. Since customer behaviour can be planned to a certain extent only challenges in...
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A central aspect of the industrial evolution in the advanced economies is the phenomenon called servitization. In general, the term servitization or product-service transition is used to highlight the change, where the tangible offering of a manufacturing firm is augmented with intangible...
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holistic and context-related management approach for the establishment of a technology-oriented service engineering at contract … are used for the conceptual elaboration of the new management approach in course of an abductive research step. The …-oriented development process on the other. The technology management function is regarded as support function for the actual service design …
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. Whereas the first approach uses management's expectation as a benchmark for material performance and allows for deeper …
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Researchers have made efforts to combine service management theory with public administration theory to develop an … the question through a literature review regarding the main elements of service management in which public service logic …
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analyzed preferably in the context of marketing and service management. Research shows that the range of roles and functions of …
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Improving retailers' incentives for service is a prominent efficiency defense for resale price maintenance (RPM). We investigate the incentives of symmetric manufacturers to use RPM when selling products through common retailers who provide services such as pre-sale advice. We show that the...
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Working with a panel dataset of of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross-border trade and FDI in the service sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity model jointly to services trade and commercial...
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