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Variety in the Knowledge base of Business Service sectors

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  • Consoli, Davide
  • Elche Hortelano, Dioni

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Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are intermediary firms specialized in knowledge screening, assessment, evaluation, and trading services in the form of consultancy. Their emergence fits a wider trajectory in the development of modern knowledge economies whereby increasing sectoral specialisation requires the expansion of activities which facilitate cross-sectoral relations. In spite of continued expansion and diversification scholarly work still portrays KIBS as a homogeneous group of activities. This paper uses official data on occupational information in the United States in search of variety across KIBS sectors, and points specifically at differences in the occupational structures and skill requirements.

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  • Consoli, Davide & Elche Hortelano, Dioni, 2009. "Variety in the Knowledge base of Business Service sectors," INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) Working Paper Series 200909, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), revised 19 Jul 2010.
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    1. Holostencu Luciana-Floriana, 2019. "Value creation and the development of knowledge-intensive service activities in Romania’s travel agencies," Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, Sciendo, vol. 13(1), pages 854-869, May.
    2. Kim, Jungho & Kollmann, Trevor & Palangkaraya, Alfons & Webster, Elizabeth, 2022. "Does local technological specialisation, diversity and dynamic competition enhance firm creation?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(7).
    3. Samul Joanna & Skapska Elzbieta & Pankov Dmitrij, 2019. "Employees’ Competences in Knowledge-Intensive Business Sector – Comparative Analysis in Two Cee Countries," Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Oeconomica, Sciendo, vol. 64(1), pages 3-15, April.
    4. Dueñas, Diego & Iglesias, Carlos & Llorente, Raquel, 2014. "Do services reduce gender inequality in labor markets? The service sector, knnowledge-intensive services and the gender pay gap," MPRA Paper 61628, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Ettore Bolisani & Enrico Scarso & Malgorzata Zieba, 2014. "How Small Kibs Companies Manage Their Intellectual Capital? Towards An Emergent Km Approach," GUT FME Working Paper Series A 25, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology.

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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • L84 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Personal, Professional, and Business Services
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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