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The Digital Economy
Business Organization, Production Processes and Regional Developments
Authors: Malecki Edward J., Moriset Bruno
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Digital Economy:
Keywords
Self-employed Teleworkers; city; Call Centers; divide; International Telecommunications Union; shared; TRODUCT Ion; service; Digital Economy; centers; Electron IC; urbanism; Silicon Valleys; offshoring; SSCs; practices; VMT Reduction; self-employed; Energy Savings; teleworkers; Human Development Index; Virtual Call Center; Telework Center; Le Ba; IBM Global Service; Digital Cities; Lone Eagles; Business Process; GPTs; Digital Divide; Van Welsum; Silicon Valley Model; Venture Capital; Nomadic Work; Ar St
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Add to cart the book of Malecki Edward J., Moriset BrunoPublication date: 12-2007
274 p. · 17.4x24.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2007
320 p. · 17.4x24.6 cm · Hardback
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Information technologies (IT) shape economic space, but we have no clear map of the cyber economy since the "digital revolution" began in the early 1970s.
The Digital Economy offers an up-to-date, critical synthesis that links the various aspects of the digital or cyber economy from the perspective of real firms. A geographic approach emphasizes how IT has made businesses less dependent on locational constraints, and the tangible effects on places and regions are placed at the core of the analysis. Case studies of companies, including Amazon, Dell, Li & Fung, and Volvo, demonstrate that the geography of digitally-driven production is the outcome of both dispersion and agglomeration dynamics. Global corporations are shown to have footprints that ignore ? to some degree ? distance and time, yet creative and coordinating activities remain anchored in urban innovative ecosystems such as Silicon Valley and Bangalore. These trends have been made possible by the development of a worldwide and integrated telecommunications network, whose unequal presence dictates the capabilities of places and communities to be connected to the global economy. However, the threat of the digital divide must not be overstated. In cities, rural areas, and emerging countries, local development is wrapped up in human capital, rather than technology.
This engaging and accessible text describes and explains the patterns and dynamics of today?s digital economic space. The effects on places and regions and the people in them are at the core of the authors? analysis, illustrated by many real examples. This book will be useful to anyone studying business and management, geography and information and communication studies.
1. Introduction: The Digital Economy and the Splintering of Economic Space 2. Information Technologies and the "New Economy" Debate 3. Where Local Meets Global: The Rise of the Digital Network 4. Digital Production and Business Organizations 5. The Multiscale Geographies of Electronic Commerce and Electronic Finance 6. Splintering the Economic Space: The Offshoring of Corporate Services 7.Telework / Telecommuting: Time and Space Flexibilities in Work and Business Organization 8. The Paradox of a "Double-Edged Geography": Local Ecosystems of the Digital Economy 9. Peripheral Regions and the "Digital Divide" Epilogue
Edward J. Malecki is Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University. He is author of over 100 published papers, and of Technology and Economic Development (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1997) and Associate Editor of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
Bruno Moriset is Associate Professor and Research Director in the department of Geography and Planning at the University of Lyon - Jean Moulin in France. His research focuses notably on the link between information technologies and regional development.