business-related services; second, we estimate the main factors underlying the intensity and complexity of KIBS outsourcing … in driving the decision to outsource KIBS, but ICT, R&D and location within a dense and technologically developed …Aim of this paper is to explore the main drivers of outsourcing of knowledge intensive business services by Italian …

business-related services; second, we estimate the main factors underlying the intensity and complexity of KIBS outsourcing … in driving the decision to outsource KIBS, but ICT, R&D and location within a dense and technologically developed …Aim of this paper is to explore the main drivers of outsourcing of knowledge intensive business services by Italian …

literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … support the theoretical arguments and suggest a positive linear relationship between the level of outsourcing and process …

business-related services; second, we estimate the main factors underlying the intensity and complexity of KIBS outsourcing … in driving the decision to outsource KIBS, but ICT, R&D and location within a dense and technologically developed …Aim of this paper is to explore the main drivers of outsourcing of knowledge intensive business services by Italian …

Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …

Offshore outsourcing of administrative and technical services has become a mainstream business practice. Increasing … commoditization of business services and growing client experience with outsourcing have created a range of competitive service … and training, and by involving clients in outsourcing operations, thereby increasing relation specific joint equity and …

-intensive business services (KIBS), as a primary source of knowledge creation and diffusion. Since this transferring process often occurs … almost 17.000 KIBS firms located in Lombardy over the period 2004-2009, and we estimate both a first difference and an … short-run variations in the degree of vertical disintegration of KIBS, while controlling for potential endogeneity issues …