Foreign expansion in service industries: Separability and human capital intensity

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Strategic Variables that Influence Entry Mode Choice in Service Firms (2007, background): “Banking, insurance, consulting, legal services, accounting, and other professional service industries are examples of this type of internationalization motive (Bouquet, Hébert, and Delios 2004).”
Analysing the link between export intensity, innovation and firm size in a science-based industry (2007, background): “Thus, following Bouquet, Hébert, and Delios (2004) we measured firm experience through a logarithmic transformation of the firm’s age.”
Expatriation as a Bridge Over Troubled Water: A Knowledge-Based Perspective Applied to Cross-Border Acquisitions (2005, background): “As a result, expatriation can be a legitimate mechanism for transferring embedded knowledge (Downes and Thomas 2000; Bouquet et al. 2004).”
Offshore outsourcing as a source of international competitiveness for SMEs (2009, background): “As discussed earlier, even though the ‘‘hardening’’ of services has increased their suitability for offshore outsourcing, service production continues to be characterized by intangibility and a higher level of human interaction (Bouquet et al., 2004; Cloninger, 2004).”