services as well as in house services on total factor productivity growth in Austrian manufacturing, based on an approach … suggested by Feenstra Hanson (1999). The results suggest a positive and significant impact of services outsourcing on TFP growth …

and the provision of services. Second, it provides an econometric assessment of the determinants of servitization for … characteristics. Both the theoretical model and empirical estimates point to a non-linear relationship between servitization and firm … productivity. The relationship is further shaped by the sector environment as well as intrinsic characteristics of the goods and …