model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable … hypotheses about the roles of different modes of services supply as complements or substitutes. We further link our estimates to … and financial services as showing the largest potential for cross-border trade when market regulations are reduced and …

particular focus on regulated prices and services for the individual EU15 countries, as well as for the EU15 and the euro area … aggregates. We show that services and HICP sub-indices considered being subject to price regulation exhibit larger degrees of … index increases and decreases. With regard to what extent services and regulated prices contribute to the degree of overall …

The importance of services procurement increases constantly. However, empirical studies identify deficits in realising … the tremendous opportunities of strategic procurement of services in day-to-day business – caused by the difference of … services compared to goods resulting in a higher degree of complexity and uncertainty.Using neo-institutional approaches, the …

Customer-oriented service provision as in customer solutions or services results in new requirements for the …-oriented services in comparison to other services and their impact on organisational activities. To this end, the thesis examines the …

75.80% in the economy as a whole, i.e., 2.5 times more than in the OECD area on average. The growth in the services … of the Finnish services sector has not yet reached that of the leading countries. In some services industries, e.g., in …