PPT Slide
· An informational economy in which sources of productivity and competitiveness for firms, regions, countries depend, more than ever, on knowledge, information and the technology of their processing – in all sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, services. Extraordinary potential for solving problems but it is potentially more exclusionary.
· A global economy that is not the same as a world economy, and is a new reality. At its core it has strategically dominant activities which have the potential of working as a unit in real time on a planetary scale. National, regional and local economies depend ultimately on the dynamics of the global economy to which they are connected through networks and markets. Reaches out to whole planet but does not include whole planet and excludes the majority in an uneven geography.
· The network enterprise is a new form of organization characteristic of economic activity, but gradually extending its logic to other domains and organizations. It is a network made either from firms or segments of firms, or from internal segmentation of firms. It includes MNCs, strategic alliances between corporations, networks of SMEs, and link-ups between corporations and networks of SMEs.
· The transformation of work and employment. Anxiety and discontent about work. Power relations have shifted in favor of capital with much downsizing, subcontracting and networking of labor, inducing flexibility and individualization of contractual arrangements – self employment, temporary work, and part-time.
· Networked government where nation states still exist, but operate as actors of a much more complex and interactive network.