Knowledge intensive business services organizational forms and national institutions

This book focuses on the development of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and the associated market characteristics and organisational forms. It brings together reputed scholars from a mix of disciplines to explore the nature and evolution of a range of Knowledge Intensive Business Servic...

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Main Author: Grimshaw, Damian
Other Authors: Miozzo, Marcela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K Edward Elgar c2006
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Summary:This book focuses on the development of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and the associated market characteristics and organisational forms. It brings together reputed scholars from a mix of disciplines to explore the nature and evolution of a range of Knowledge Intensive Business Services. Through an examination of KIBS sectors such as computer services, management consultancy and R&D services, the contributions in this book argue that the evolution of KIBS is strongly associated with new inter-organizational forms and that different country institutions shape the characteristics of these organisational forms
pt. 1. Knowledge intensive business services and organizational forms -- pt. 2. Knowledge intensive business services in diverse national contexts
Physical Description:xi, 279 p ill
ISBN:9781845422363
1845422368
9781847201751