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An evaluation of knowledge intensive business services industry efficiency: the Italian case

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  • Domenico Campisi
  • Paolo Mancuso
  • Stefano Luigi Mastrodonato
  • Donato Morea

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Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) are private enterprises or organisations mainly concerned with providing knowledge-intensive inputs to the business processes of other organisations, represent a core feature of the knowledge-based economy functioning and play an important role in local and regional economies as a source of added value. The paper investigates the application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) in conjunction with financial ratios analysis (FRA) to estimate and compare the performance of the KIBS industry in Italy over the period 2012-2017. In particular, we evaluated the three main segments that identify KIBS services. The empirical investigation proposed reveals that the results of FRA approach do not provide sufficient and complete information on the efficiency of KIBS firms, while major advantages behind using of DEA are related to its structural characteristic in measuring performance and identifying opportunities for possible efficiency improvements by looking at the differences between efficient companies and inefficient ones.

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  • Domenico Campisi & Paolo Mancuso & Stefano Luigi Mastrodonato & Donato Morea, 2021. "An evaluation of knowledge intensive business services industry efficiency: the Italian case," International Journal of Business Performance Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 22(2/3), pages 327-337.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbpma:v:22:y:2021:i:2/3:p:327-337
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