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The increasing service intensity of European manufacturing

Falk, Martin; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of the increase in service output on the demand for different categories of service occupations in the EU manufacturing sector. Furthermore, we investigate the impact of the global sourcing of producer services on the demand for different service occupations....

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Structural Transformation and the sophistication of Production

Spatafora, Nicola; Anand, Rahul; Mishra, Saurabh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

A new dataset on export sophistication reveals that in many countries the importance of modern services, and the sophistication of manufactured and service exports, has increased over time. However, this trend was less pronounced in LICs. Sophisticated sectors are more likely to act as a...

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Outsourcing, Offshoring - Service Offshoring: Bane or Boon and What to Do?

Brainard, Lael; Litan, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 5 (2004) 2, pp. 3-7

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R.; Strand, Bridget - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This note is on Koreaâ€™s transition to a knowledge-based economy, the prospects and challenges ahead, and the development of its financial sector. Assessment of recent government initiatives to develop capital markets has been presented. The note discusses restrictions on Chaebol ownership...

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Outsourcing of services and the productivity recovery in U.S. manufacturing in the 1980s

ten Raa, Thijs; Wolff, E.N. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996

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Investitionen in der EU : mittelfristig starke Expansion

Vieweg, Hans-Günther - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 48 (1995) 01/02, pp. 25-30

kommenden Jahre in den meisten EU-Ländern mit einem kräftigen Investitionswachstum. 1995 und 1996 wird die Industrie ihre …

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INDUSTRIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE ARE MAKING STRIDES TOWARD SERVITIZATION

Sorin, BURNETE - In: Studies in Business and Economics 9 (2014) 1, pp. 35-42

-West trade, outsourcing being the chief conveyance vehicle. However, unlike intermediate inputs, knowledge-intensive services are …

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Living up to the value agenda: the empirical realities of through-life value creation in construction

Leiringer, Roine; Green, Stuart; Raja, Jawwad - In: Construction Management and Economics 27 (2009) 3, pp. 271-285

'. Such debates echo the established concept of 'high value manufacturing' and associated trends towards servitization. Within … consideration of broader trends of privatization and outsourcing within and across the construction industry's client base. The … outsourcing of asset management capabilities. However, such trends are by no means uniform or consistent. An in-depth case study …

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Mitigate, tolerate or relocate? Offshoring challenges, strategic imperatives and resource constraints

Manning, Stephan - In: Journal of World Business 49 (2014) 4, pp. 522-535

This paper examines key firm-level factors influencing initial strategic responses to offshoring implementation challenges. Comparative case findings indicate that firms are likely to try to mitigate challenges if they perceive to have control over their cause; if strategic objectives are diverse;...

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