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Competitive strategy is primarily concerned with how a business should deploy resources at its disposal to achieve and maintain defensible competitive positional advantages in the marketplace. Competitive marketing strategy focuses on how a business should deploy marketing resources at its disposal to facilitate the achievement and maintenance of competitive positional advantages in the marketplace. In a growing number of product-markets, the competitive landscape has evolved from a predominantly physical marketplace to one encompassing both the physical and the electronic marketplace. This article presents a conceptual frameworkdelineating the drivers and outcomes of marketing strategy in the context of competing in this broader, evolving marketplace. The proposed frameworkprovides insights into changes in the

Virtual communities have been the focus of research since the beginning of the Internet. A more recent phenomenon is the hybrid networked community: a physical community extended by a network infrastructure, seeking to enhance existing social interactions, storage and dissemination of knowledge using both online and offline channels of communication. This paper considers one specific form: grassroots initiated networked communities. These are communities of locality that have developed their own Internet and /or intranet infrastructure with minimal external support. They believe that establishing such a network will enhance communication and 'sense of community ' within their geographically defined boundaries. These initiatives may offer a viable and sustainable method for overcoming multiple digital inequalities, support the development of social capital, and provide insights into the impact of near-ubiquitous social computing. We review a case study of five such projects in the UK, identifying characteristics, methods of function, and long term aims. An outline of this work is presented and indications of likely future developments offered. 1.

Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access published June 22, 2005 This paper has two main aims. Firstly to conceptualize the production networks of the video games industry through an examination of its evolutionintoamulti-milliondollarindustry.Secondly,tousethevideogames industry to demonstrate the utility of Global Production Network approaches to understanding the geographically uneven impacts of globalization processes. In particular, three key notions of value, power and embeddedness are used to reveal the most powerful actors in the production network, how they maintain and exercise their power, and how the organization of production is manipulated as a result. It is argued that while hardware production is organized by console manufacturers using truly global sourcing strategies, the production of software is far more complex. In fact, software production networks arebounded withinthreemajor economic regions: WesternEurope, North America and Asia Pacific. This paper seeks to explain how and why this has occurred.

Introduction One definition of the Internet is: "a collection of resources that can be reached from those networks" (Krol & Hoffman 1993, page 1) This definition by Krol & Hoffman provides the starting point for my conceptualisation of accessibility in the Information Age. I will examine how one can begin to measure and visualise the aspects of accessibility to resources within the Internet. I start my discussion with the assumption that a person has physical access to the Internet, via a networked computer. I also take a broad view of accessibility, going beyond formal mathematical models to consider wider issues. There are many important dimensions to accessibility beyond simple Internet connectivity which need to be considered and in some manner measured and mapped. Once you have, what could be termed, `physical' access to the Internet, how accessible are the information resources, people and electronic places available online? Fo

People have long been able to carry out some forms of collaborative intellectual work over great distances. Messages and manuscripts have been exchanged by post for centuries, facilitating at least loose forms of collaboration. At the end of the 19 th century it became possible to conduct synchronous interactions over distance with the appearance of the telephone. Throughout the 20 th century a cornucopia of new communications technologies widened the options for interacting at a distance. Today we routinely use telephone, fax, e-mail, audio and videoconferences, instant messaging, and an everwidening array of collaborative technologies on the Internet to coordinate and carry out our intellectual collaborations and social interactions. Throughout history, however, face-to-face interactions have been highly valued. In ancient times, people would endure long, slow trips in order to conduct face-to-face discussions. Thus, the emergence of modern transport networks has also had substantial impact on collaboration. The railroad, the automobile, and the airplane have emerged as essential “collaboration technologies. ” Jet transport has been especially important. It is not uncommon to find that small talk among researchers ’ includes comparisons of their

Economic Herald of Rostov (Rostov State University) in Fall, 2002. Please refer to the English language version for purposes of quotation and citation. Acknowledgements This article draws upon material from the authors ’ article “An introduction to the economy of the knowledge society, ” published in the Special Issue of

Individual human activity takes place in a particular space-time context. Space and time therefore are two major factors that constrain an individual from carrying out certain activities (Golledge and Stimson, 1997). Torsten Hägerstrand (1970) proposed a framework to examine the relationships between various constraints and human activities in a space-time context,

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