Begriffe wie Informations-, Wissens-und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft prägen das Bild heutiger Volkswirtschaften. Der Dienstleistungssektor hat weltweit stark steigende Zuwachsraten und drängt den klassischen Industriesektor immer stärker in den Hintergrund, die zunehmende Auseinandersetzung...

Will an enterprise in the information age be able to afford to remain just an ordinary firm? Breathtaking progress in the fields of telecommunications and the ur-gency to concentrate on core competencies are revolutionising the company form of output production.(...) [Hans A. Wüthrich, Andreas...

The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...

This paper uses confidential microdata from the Census of Services to examine lawfirms' field boundaries. We find that the share of lawyers working in field-specializedfirms increases as market size increases and lawyers field-specialize, indicating thattransaction costs among lawyers, and not...