The increasing role of services in GDP results from the growing share of service industries, but also from the fact that firms produce services along with goods. This paper investigates the determinants of service provision by manufacturing firms. First, it develops a model of differentiated...

Purpose: Investigating how the separation of the product and service business mediates the effect of management’s commitment to the service strategy on service performance in product manufacturing firms. Methodology: We surveyed 216 European manufacturers in the high-value durable equipment...

This research analyzes if the measurement costs of a traded good’s attributes reduce control sharing in contracts for the provision of industrial services, as forecasted by the contract theories of measurement and transaction costs. Theoretically, when an industry outsources an activity it...