ABSTRACT

The purpose of this chapter is to present the results of an in-depth analysis of the primary data gathered through the postal survey of UK business services sector firms conducted in 1990. 1 The hypotheses, generated from the review of literature, and set out in Chapter 7, will be tested using the survey data. During this analysis sub-sectors will only be considered in terms of the extent to which they diverge from the total group. The three main sub-sectors will be examined further in Chapter 9 where case studies of individual firms will be presented.