The predicament of firms in the new and old economies: A critical inquiry into traditional binaries in the study of the space-economy

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-69

  Ettlinger, Nancy ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries; Business to business; Compression; E commerce; Global economy; Networks; New economy; Old economy; Society and technology

Indexed keywords

E-COMMERCE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC THEORY; GLOBAL ECONOMY;

EID: 50149110743     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132507083506     Document Type: Article

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