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Manufacturing Demand for Business Services

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  • O'Farrell, Patrick N

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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.

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  • O'Farrell, Patrick N, 1995. "Manufacturing Demand for Business Services," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 19(4), pages 523-543, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:19:y:1995:i:4:p:523-43
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    1. G. Ietto-Gillies, 1998. "A Comparison of Merged versus Non-merged Business Establishments in Britain: What Can we Learn from the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey?," CIBS Research Papers in International Business 10-98, London South Bank University CIBS.
    2. Patricia Gabaldón Quiñones & Carlos Iglesias Fernández & Elena Mañas Alcón, 2002. "El empleo en los servicios sociales, culturales y comunitarios," Working Papers 01/02, Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social.
    3. Desislava Kolarova, 2006. "Microeconomic Aspects in Business Services’ Development: the Case of Bulgaria," Economic Studies journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 2, pages 90-119.
    4. Diego Rodríguez Rodríguez & Fernando Merino de Lucas, 2001. "The demand of business services in Spain," Working Papers 02/01, Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social.

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