Business models along supply chain position and servitisation: An empirical investigation of European manufacturers

Levente Szász () and Krisztina Demeter
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Levente Szász: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics and Business Administration in Hungarian Language, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Acta Oeconomica, 2015, vol. 65, issue 3, 367-391

Abstract: Competitive pressures of the world economy are continuously reshaping the global supply chains of manufacturing firms. At the same time, global competition is altering the nature of output offered by manufacturers, shifting it towards a higher share of service elements. The goal of this paper is to investigate how these two factors are combined, using a sample of manufacturing companies from 13 European countries belonging to the assembly industries of fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment. The results indicate that different business models became dominant in the less developed Eastern European and the developed Western European region. Involving measures of business performance and reasons for plant location, this study also argues that in terms of service offerings and supply chain position, other types of business models can coexist and successfully prevail in the two regions.

Keywords: internationalisation; outsourcing/offshoring; supply chain; servitisation; business models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C42 F29 L60 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
Note: This research was supported by the Domus Hungarica scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DM/76/2012).
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