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Article: Organizational models for collaboration in the new economy.
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- Human Resource Planning
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Technology Drivers and Collaboration
The new economy is a knowledge-based economy without borders, where the race is between companies and locales over how to learn faster and organize more flexibly to take advantage of technology-enabled market opportunities (Kelly, 1998; Best, 2001). Within this new economy, the World Wide Web is ubiquitous. It has transformed geographically separated locales into a "global village" for information sharing, social interaction, and economic exchange. Technology, in particular, ever-expanding digital bandwidth, has resulted in the creation of new-economy forms of intangible, knowledge-based capital, the value of which now exceeds ...