Businesses and the internet

Implications for firm location and clustering

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12626537
AutoresJohannes Traxler (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, autor correspondente), Michael I Luger (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Ano2000
Volume2
Fascículo3
Páginas279-300
Data de publicação2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1387-6988 • E-ISSN: 1572-5448
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13876980008412648
OpenAlexW1970999540
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas29

This article discusses the economic and geographical implications of the growing use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the production process. In short, ICTs make internal and external communications more efficient and allow faster and more flexible interaction among different agents. These improvements correlate with changes in the internal organization of the business and in its strategic behavior. Those changes have implications for regional economic development. The four sections of the article include a typology of information and communications technologies and a discussion of how they diffuse; an elaboration of the concept of economic clusters and economic space in the context of ICTs; and a review of the methodological issues surrounding the development of virtual (rather than physical) clusters of economic activity. The article's, major insights include the following. Information‐based, younger, and smaller businesses, and the service sector, benefit most from the Internet. Many of those businesses are integrated in networks and economic clusters; historically, they are often located in close spatial proximity to each other and/or to their customers. At the same time, a new type of “virtual agglomeration” is created for some type of activities through Internet interaction, which does not require physical proximity. The article stresses the need for a new paradigm to think about the relationship of business and space

Business · Cluster analysis · Context (archaeology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Geography · ICTS · Industrial organization · Information and Communications Technology · Knowledge management · Process (computing · Service (business · Sociology · The Internet · Typology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Marketing