Knowledge-intensive services and international competitiveness: A four country comparison

Technology Analysis and Strategic Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 391-408

  Windrum, Paul ^a   Tomlinson, Mark ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032709044     PISSN: 09537325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095373299107429     Document Type: Article

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2. Ibid., p. 117.
3. For example: C. Antonelli, 'Localized Technological Change, New Information Technology and the Knowledge-based Economy: The European Evidence', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 8, 1998, pp. 177-198; Windrum, Flanagan & Tomlinson, Recent patterns of services innovation in the UK, Report for TSER project 'SI4S', Manchester, PREST, 1997.
4. For example: C. Antonelli, 'Localized Technological Change, New Information Technology and the Knowledge-based Economy: The European Evidence', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 8, 1998, pp. 177-198; Windrum, Flanagan & Tomlinson, Recent patterns of services innovation in the UK, Report for TSER project 'SI4S', Manchester, PREST, 1997.
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7. For example: F. Blackler, 'Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Organizations: An Overview and Interpretation', Organization Studies, 16, 1995, pp. 1021-1046; J.B. Quinn, Intelligent Enterprise (New York, Free Press, 1992); R. Reich, Work of Nations - Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism (Simon Schuster, 1991); H. Scarbrough (Ed.), The IT Challenge: Strategy and IT in Financial Services (London, Prentice-Hall, 1992).
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16. The origins of the tertiarization thesis can be traced back to Clark (C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress (London, Macmillan, 1942) and Fuchs (V. Fuchs, The Service Economy (Columbia, NBER/Columbia University Press, 1968)). Lundvall & Borrás (op. cit., Ref. 1) note that proponents of the thesis generally employ a stages model of economic history in which the 'service economy' represents the tertiary stage in the development of modern societies. While some writers still hold a tertiarization perspective, the more modern literature is not limited to this view.
17. The origins of the tertiarization thesis can be traced back to Clark (C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress (London, Macmillan, 1942) and Fuchs (V. Fuchs, The Service Economy (Columbia, NBER/Columbia University Press, 1968)). Lundvall & Borrás (op. cit., Ref. 1) note that proponents of the thesis generally employ a stages model of economic history in which the 'service economy' represents the tertiary stage in the development of modern societies. While some writers still hold a tertiarization perspective, the more modern literature is not limited to this view.
18. Op. cit., Ref. 7.
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28. Ibid., p. 35.
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31. The same point has been made by Scarbrough (H. Scarbrough, 'Making the Matrix Matter Strategic Information Systems in Financial Services, Journal of Management Studies, 34, 1997, pp. 171-190.), although Scarbrough's social constructivist interpretation is notably different to Antonelli's (op. cit., Ref. 3) technology-centred interpretation.
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43. Ibid.
44. Unfortunately Eurostat does not provide 1994 data on these categories for Germany. Therefore we list the 1993 data for Germany.
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