The research was motivated by the importance of inter-firm collaboration within service innovation. Inter …-firm collaboration covers a broad range of organizational combinations of various size and motivations in various levels of formal …

This paper studies the joint effects of inter-firm collaboration and electronic business on firm profitability … primarily in Finnish manufacturing. It is found that deeper forms of inter-firm collaboration boost financial performance but …-firm collaboration and e-business intensities as well as use electronic networks for conducting their collaboration are also more …