Manufacturing Demand for Business Services

Patrick N O'Farrell

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1995, vol. 19, issue 4, 523-43

Abstract: This paper analyzes the demand by manufacturers in Scotland and southeast England for key strategic business services during the three years 1988-90 within the framework of the flexible firm paradigm. A series of hypotheses concerning the demand for business services is developed and tested. Evidence suggests that expansion of demand is the primary cause of increasing business service output and not restructuring strategies as predicted by the flexible firm model. Both externalization and internationalization of business services are occurring simultaneously; the net balance is consistent with a marginal trend toward vertical integration in manufacturing and a stronger one in business services. (c) 1995 Academic Press, Ltd. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1995
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