Modularity and innovation in knowledge-intensive business services: IT outsourcing in Germany and the UK

Miozzo, Marcela; Grimshaw, Damian

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2005.06.005

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“…The first reason has to do with the role of KIBS in the development of (local) outsourcing of service activities (Fixler and Siegel, 1999;Groshen and Potter, 2003;Heshmati, 2003;Ono, 2003;Miozzo and Grimshaw, 2005;Grimshaw and Miozzo, 2006;Arora and Forman, 2007;Henderson and Ono, 2008), sustaining the productivity growth in both the manufacturing and service sectors (Fixler and Siegel, 1999). The externalization of business services has generally tightened the links between the manufacturing and services industries (Castellacci, 2008;Corrocher and Cusmano, 2014):…”

Section: H3 (Local Multiplier)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Heshmati (2003) explains that the impact of outsourcing on the in-crease in the labor share of services is due to its direct effect on workers' displacement as well as its indirect effect on the demand for services. In the case of KIBS, clients retain minimum "in-house" capabilities allowing them to keep interacting with the external supplier in close proximity (Miozzo and Grimshaw, 2005). This requires the outsourcing to be done in the local context (Ono, 2003;Miozzo and Grimshaw, 2005;Grimshaw and Miozzo, 2006;Henderson and Ono, 2008).…”

Section: H3 (Local Multiplier)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the case of KIBS, clients retain minimum "in-house" capabilities allowing them to keep interacting with the external supplier in close proximity (Miozzo and Grimshaw, 2005). This requires the outsourcing to be done in the local context (Ono, 2003;Miozzo and Grimshaw, 2005;Grimshaw and Miozzo, 2006;Henderson and Ono, 2008). Thus, we might infer that hypotheses 1 and 2 are all the more true when con-sidering manufacturing sectors only: they should exert a demand-pull effect on KIBS, and the knowledge created by KIBS should spill more easily onto manufacturing firms due to outsourc-ing.…”

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Abstract:This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, we are able to estimate a structural vector autoregressive model in which the causal directions between KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. One main finding holds that although regional growth has a negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This result confirms the claim that KIBS can play a key role in regional policies. Distinguishing between financial and nonfinancial KIBS, we find that financial KIBS have a procyclical effect on regional growth underlining the potential de-stabilizing effect of a large financial sector.

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“…Extant research has shown that IT facilitates innovations of other key business functions such as R&D, manufacturing (e.g., Kim, Cavusgil, & Calantone, 2006), and business services (e.g., Miozzo & Grimshaw, 2005). Nonetheless, innovation requires long term commitment of IT resources, coordination, and alignment with other business activities.…”

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Implications of service processes outsourcing on firm value

Lee

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2010

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“…KIBS are active participants in other agents' strategies and operations, shifting the customary definition of firms' limits to more open and collaborative configurations (Miozzo & Grimshaw, 2005). In this case, access to knowledge through cooperation and networking becomes a determinant aspect regarding the innovative activity in KIBS (Yang & Yan, 2010).…”

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On the Contributions of Knowledge-Intensive Business-Services Multinationals to Laggard Innovation Systems

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2015

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is assumed to be a source of knowledge flows across National Innovation Systems, with particular relevance for developing countries. Nonetheless, empirical assessments are usually manufacturingoriented, providing only a partial view of the phenomena under scrutiny. This article aims at contributing to this body of literature by investigating the impacts of inward FDI on aggregate outcomes of developing countries' National Innovation Systems, taking into account potential contributions from Knowledge-Intensive BusinessServices (KIBS) multinationals and their respective comparison with manufacturing investments. Using a panel dataset comprising 38 developing countries (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010), fixed-effects regressions are applied according to a traditional endogenous growth model. Empirical findings underscore the relevance of KIBS MNCs' contributions to host innovation systems in developing countries. These impacts broadly surmount those of manufacturing FDI and they are particularly significant for: (a) value added in services; (b) value added in manufacturing; (c) aggregate export capacity; and (d) international (United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO]) patenting activity.

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Modularity and innovation in knowledge-intensive business services: IT outsourcing in Germany and the UK

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References 35 publications

Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth

Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth

Implications of service processes outsourcing on firm value

On the Contributions of Knowledge-Intensive Business-Services Multinationals to Laggard Innovation Systems

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