Summary information
Study title
UK-IRC Survey of Business and Professional Service Firms, 2014
Creator
University of Cambridge, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School
University of Manchester, Manchester Business School
Study number / PID
7610 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-7610-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
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This is a survey of business and professional service firms. The aim was to understand variety amongst professional and business service firms, in terms of how they compete, how they innovate, how they manage knowledge, etc. Firms active in the following sectors were surveyed: advertising agencies; architecture practices; design and creative agencies; engineering and building consultancy; IT services and software consultancy; market research.
A total of 4500 firms were sent the survey by post; 576 completed surveys were received. The survey examined issues including: service offerings clients and competitors; employees, human resources and knowledge management; collaboration and partnerships; innovation; and general information.
Main Topics:
Competition, innovation, knowledge management and collaboration in professional and business service firms.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/02/2014 - 01/06/2014
Country
United Kingdom
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Institutions/organisations
National
Universe
Professional and business service firms in the United Kingdom.
Sampling procedure
For the market research, advertising and IT firms, a sample stratified by size was drawn from company databases.
For the architecture, engineering and design firms, contact details were collected from organisational listings.
For the architecture, engineering and design firms, contact details were collected from organisational listings.
Kind of data
Numeric
Data collection mode
Postal survey
Web-based survey
Funding information
Grant number
RES-598-28-0001
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2015
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
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