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Knowledge Dynamics and Knowledge Commodification of KIBS in Time and Space

In: Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services

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  • Simone Strambach

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After some decades of international and interdisciplinary research on KIBS several organizational and spatial characteristics of this highly dynamic segment can be considered meanwhile as stylized facts. The pronounced segmentation of the KIBS sectors in few large, mainly multi-national corporations and a large part of small and micro businesses, also named a J-shaped industrial structure (Miles and Green, 2008, p. 13), is a common characteristic that remains stable over time. Obviously this segmentation reflects that scale advantages are so far not very prominent in the sector or at least difficult to reach. At the macro level the dynamic growth and the strong concentration pattern of KIBS in urban agglomeration areas are such structural features (Moulaert and Tödtling, 1995; Keeble and Nachum, 2002; Strambach, 2010a; Toivonen, 2002; Wood, 2002b; Bryson and Daniels, 2007). Besides spatial concentration processes, the relatively unchanged country-specific and region-specific specialization patterns of KIBS sub-sectors, is another characteristic. These profiles point to the evolution of accumulated localized competences of KIBS influenced by their respective institutional environments. Not until recently the KIBS research noticed in more detail the importance of the institutional context in its influence on interaction relations and organizational forms of KIBS (Grimshaw and Miozzo, 2006).

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  • Simone Strambach, 2012. "Knowledge Dynamics and Knowledge Commodification of KIBS in Time and Space," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Eleonora Maria & Roberto Grandinetti & Barbara Bernardo (ed.), Exploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services, chapter 3, pages 56-78, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-00842-8_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137008428_4
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    1. Ibert, Oliver & Müller, Felix C., 2015. "Network dynamics in constellations of cultural differences: Relational distance in innovation processes in legal services and biotechnology," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 181-194.
    2. Müller, Felix Claus & Ibert, Oliver, 2014. "(Re-)Sources of Innovation: Understanding and Comparing Innovation Dynamics through the Lens of Communities of Practice," IRS Working Papers 52, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS).

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