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Internet-based business among knowledge intensive business services: Some Irish regional evidence

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  • Elaine Ramsey
  • Patrick Ibbotson
  • Jim Bell
  • Patrick Mccole

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Technological innovation associated with e-business is now widely appreciated as one of the key drivers of positive economic change and innovation performance and provides a potentially important test of a region or nation's ability to generate and sustain competitiveness. Specifically, the importance of the knowledge-intensive business service sector to economic growth will increase significantly with rapid development of the service economy and the rise of e-business. Using a quantitative methodology, the research described in this article was aimed at exploring these issues relative to e-business activities within the two regions of Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland. We examined e-business ‘global’ drivers, barriers, uses and benefits, and found (among other things) a high level of website ownership (64 per cent). The main perceived barrier to future e-business plans was a lack of government support.

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  • Elaine Ramsey & Patrick Ibbotson & Jim Bell & Patrick Mccole, 2005. "Internet-based business among knowledge intensive business services: Some Irish regional evidence," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 525-545, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:25:y:2005:i:4:p:525-545
    DOI: 10.1080/02642060500092337
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    1. Wei-Shong Lin & Jui-Ling Huang & Margaret L. Sheng, 2014. "How the Organizational Goals Affect Knowledge Management," International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, International School for Social and Business Studies, Celje, Slovenia, vol. 3(1), pages 3-22.
    2. David Doloreux & Nabil Amara & Réjean Landry, 2008. "Mapping Regional and Sectoral Characteristics of Knowledge‐Intensive Business Services: Evidence from the Province of Quebec (Canada)," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(3), pages 464-496, September.

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