In the current environment, the economic clusterization, which contributes to closer interrelations between the businesses operating within this system and promotes development of the involved regions, represents one of the key factors relating to competitive ability improvement of the active businesses. Identification and assessment of regional clusters is actually regarded as an insufficientl...

The services sector is subject to a continuous transformation process and to technological changes and innovations; in the last few years the emergent Service Science Management and Engineering (SSME) discipline did several attempts in developing theories and explaining the service industry’s phenomena. The present paper, which is theoretically grounded in the Work Systems Theory, aims at descr...

In today's fast changing healthcare sector, decision makers are facing a growing demand for both clinical and administrative information in order to comply with legal and customer-specific requirements. The use of business intelligence (BI) is seen as a possible solution to this actual challenge. As the existing research about BI is primarily focused on the industrial sector, it is the aim of t...

Using data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors investigate processes of job creation and job destruction in Britain. They find that rates of employment growth, job creation, and job destruction were higher at the end of the 1980s than at the beginning. Bothjob creation and job destruction were extremely concentrated: about 50% of each was account...

The paper studies the correlations between FDI in services and manufacturing efficiencies in host countries. First a theoretical analysis is presented on the direct and indirect channels through which FDI in services enhances manufacturing efficiencies in host countries. Then the forward linkages and backward linkages between FDI in services and manufacturing sector in host countries are tested...

The theoretical model presented here describes the interactions between a concentrated industrial sector and a perfectly competitive financial system where industrial firms can issue bonds or borrow from money from the banks in order to finance their investments. It is shown that an exogenous modification in the degree of concentration in the industrial sector does not only affects the equilibr...

Direct measures of expectations, derived from survey data, are used in a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model of actual and expected output series in eight industrial sectors comprising UK Manufacturing. Through the application of the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the VAR model is used to measure trend output in the Manufacturing Sector. This measure is compared with alternative trend measures o...

This paper analyses the growth and spatial evolution of the Danish IT sector during the upswing in the 1990s. The IT sector employment and the number of firms have more than doubled during a decade, but the evolution indicate a ‘non random’ clustering of the industry around the larger urban areas. The paper focuses on dominant forces in shaping the growth and spatial evolution of the industry a...