<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Young dynamic service enterprises – gazelles – represent the modern economy phenomenon, which stimulates the growth by its operation, in particular of local economy. This article identifies the position of gazelles in services and defines their characteristic features with regard to knowledge intensity of their production. Research results document the dominant representation of gazelles in services within the framework of their sectoral distribution and their growing economic effects in the Slovak Republic. Knowledge intensity of production is determinant of gazelle innovativeness in services, and the result is supported by knowledge of higher intensity perception of innovation effects in a knowledge-intensive production of services.</p></abstract>

Young dynamic service enterprises – gazelles – represent the modern economy phenomenon, which stimulates the growth by its operation, in particular of local economy. This article identifies the position of gazelles in services and defines their characteristic features with regard to knowledge intensity of their production. Research results document the dominant representation of gazelles in services within the framework of their sectoral distribution and their growing economic effects in the Slovak Republic. Knowledge intensity of production is determinant of gazelle innovativeness in services, and the result is supported by knowledge of higher intensity perception of innovation effects in a knowledge-intensive production of services.

Gazelles in services: what are the specifics of their existence in Slovakia?

Faculty of commerce, Department of services and tourism

Faculty of Commerce, Department of Services and Tourism

Management & Marketing

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Young dynamic service enterprises – gazelles – represent the modern economy phenomenon, which stimulates the growth by its operation, in particular of local...

Gazelles in services: what are the specifics of their existence in Slovakia?

Published Online: Jul 04, 2018

Page range: 929 - 945

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2018-0014

Keywords
innovation, gazelles, services, fast growing enterprises, knowledge

© 2018 Viera Kubičková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Gazelles in services: what are the specifics of their existence in Slovakia?

Published Online: Jul 04, 2018

Page range: 929 - 945

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmcks-2018-0014

Keywordsinnovation, gazelles, services, fast growing enterprises, knowledge

© 2018 Viera Kubičková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
innovation, gazelles, services, fast growing enterprises, knowledge