1. KNOWLEDGE ASSETS IN SERVICES ACROSS INDUSTRIES AND ACROSS TIME
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Erickson, G. Scott and Rothberg, Helen N.
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Intellectual capital ,Knowledge management ,Knowledge assets ,Tobin’s q ,Services ,Business ,HF5001-6182 - Abstract
This paper explores the question of whether knowledge assets are more developed in services industries than in non-services. The concept of the “knowledge economy” has always gone hand-in-hand with growth in the percentage of the economy represented by services. Two multi-year, multi-industry datasets are used to directly compare the knowledge asset levels in service industry firms against those in non-service industry firms. Service industries do, indeed, reflect higher levels of intellectual capital in recent years, but did not do so a decade ago. Further, there is considerable evidence of changes in specific service and non-service industries over the time period, adding details to the finding that knowledge development is not static but does vary over time and circumstance. These results open up a number of promising research directions that could lead to a better understanding of the nature of these differing circumstances and how better strategic choices might be made regarding investments in knowledge management.
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- 2015
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