Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues

Henk L.M. Kox ()

Industrial Organization from EconWPA

Abstract: This report summarises the findings of a study on the growth factors and growth prospects of the business services (BS)industry, applying an internationally comparative perspective. The report untangles factors behind the extraordinary growth of the BS industry during last decade,comparing it with other market industries.It analyses how the growth pattern is affected by product differentiation and the structure of competition.The study analyses the role of business services in inter-industry relations and in national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario analysis is applied to sketch future growth patterns of business services industry up to 2010. The report finally identifies future-oriented policy issues,after identifying the dominant market failure problems with regard to the BS industry.

Keywords: business services; productivity growth; innovation; market structure; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L1 L2 L8 D2 O3 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com and nep-his
Date: 2003-09-21
Note: Type of Document - adobe PDF; pages: 178 ; figures: included
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/io/papers/0309/0309003.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wpa:wuwpio:0309003

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Industrial Organization from EconWPA
Series data maintained by EconWPA ().