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ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Labor Mobility and Mutual Recognition Arrangements on Professional Services
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2013
The paper aims to identify the facilitating and deterring factors affecting the implementation of the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) in engineering, nursing, architecture, surveying, medical, dental practice, and accountancy. On the overall, the progress of MRA implementation in...
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Managing knowledge integration: Balancing professional and managerial logics in an engineering consulting firm
Ollila, Susanne; Styhre, Alexander; Werr, Andreas - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 29 (2015) 2, pp. 131-148
Integrating professional expertise in professional service firms (PSFs) is a key strategic challenge in the contemporary economy and individual firms. Previous research has pointed out that the governance of key aspects of PSFs, including knowledge integration, is shifting from a professional to...
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Moving Towards a More Dynamic Business Sector in Spain
Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened. Boosting economic growth requires a new generation...
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CUSTOMER-INDUCED INTERACTIONS AND INNOVATION IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: THE CASE OF SOFTWARE CUSTOMISATION
SCHAARSCHMIDT, MARIO; WALSH, GIANFRANCO; BERTRAM, MATTHIAS - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 19 (2015) 02, pp. 1550019-1
their organisational IT landscape. From a knowledge perspective, such customisation services can be conceptualised as a …-induced interactions, the present research investigates customer-induced interactions in relation to customisation services. The authors …
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Practices (revised)
Blouin, Max; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008
We examine an economy where professionals provide services to clients and where a professional can sell his practice to …
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Learning and Knowledge Depreciation in Professional Services
Boone, Tonya; Ganeshan, Ram; Hicks, Robert L. - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 7, pp. 1231-1236
to evaluate learning and depreciation in professional services. Our results, based on seven years of project data … collected from an architectural engineering (A/E) firm, show that (a) professional services exhibit learning curves, (b) there …
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The role of knowledge transfer and network relationships for stimulating growth in the professional services sector
Eibel-Spanyi, Katalin; Freeman, Susan - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 5, pp. 494-513
This paper examines the central role of knowledge transfer and network relationships in the context of services …
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Reputation on a credence good market: an economic analysis of professional self-regulation
Chaserant, Camille; Harnay, Sophie - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2011
production of individual and collective reputations and its impact on the quality of professional services. It presents a short …
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ARE THE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES THREATENED BY SUBSTITUTES?
STROE, Gabriel Sorin - In: Risk in Contemporary Economy (2014), pp. 160-169
Substitutes pose a permanent threat on firms’ products or services in any industry. As the extant literature on … strategic analysis is abundant in examples of substitutes for goods and traditional services, the paper aims at analyzing in …-depth the concept of substitutes in the case of engineering services industry which is a knowledge-based, project-based, and …
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The Effect of Customer Empowerment on Adherence to Expert Advice
Stremersch, Stefan; Camacho, Camacho, N.M.A.; de Jong, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2014
Customers often receive expert advice related to their health, finances, taxes or legal procedures, to name just a few. A noble stance taken by some is that experts should empower customers to make their own decisions. In this article, we distinguish informational from decisional empowerment and...
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