“…First, servitization affects financial indicators by enabling stable revenue generation throughout the product life cycle and economic downturns (Gebauer et al, 2010a(Gebauer et al, , 2010b(Gebauer et al, , 2010c, creating new revenue streams Ariu et al, 2016) and influencing revenue and profit growth (Kohtamäki et al, 2013;Eggert et al, 2011Eggert et al, , 2014. Furthermore, servitization can enhance a firm's entry into new markets and its overall export performance (Hu et al, 2021;Huang et al, 2022;Islam and M arquez-Ramos, 2023) as well as establishment of interfirm linkages. This includes the impact of service exports on goods exports (Ariu et al, 2016), internationalization through foreign direct investment (Görg and Jabbour, 2016) and the offshoring of intermediate inputs (Debaere et al, 2013), which also enhances efficiency and enables the generation of additional revenue.…”