Sullivan’s model presents an opportunity to explore the management of intellectual property (IP) as a specialised activity in the discipline of knowledge management. The model is analysed in terms of strengths and weaknesses to gain a better understanding of the relationship between knowledge, the demands of the new economy and the role of intellectual property in organisations. The analysis fo...

The major role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the new economy is well documented: countries worldwide are pouring resources into their ICT infrastructure despite the widely acknowledged ‘‘productivity paradox’’. Evaluating the contribution of ICT investments has become an elusive but important goal of IS researchers and economists. But this area of research is fraught with...

Since the 1997 " Asian Financial Crisis" there has been a continual drum roll of domestic currency devaluation, banking system collapses, stock market bubble burstings, and classical defined recession that moved from the periphery to the heart of the capitalist system. At the touch of this dark wand of crisis all the Brave New Economy talk of the 1990s which projected infinite, conflict-free in...

Importance should be given to financial indicators of profitability, revenue growth and liquidity, indicators of customer loyalty and satisfaction, indicators of innovation, quality, range of products or speed of service, and indicators related to the tasks and satisfaction of the employees, technology and alliances. Nevertheless, the new economy companies have a series of peculiar characterist...

This paper provides an overview of how the new economy and the Internet have and are likely to change the conduct of business. The Internet creates value on both sidesFon the demand side by allowing firms to customize to suit specific consumer needs and on the supply side by reducing costs. Our particular interest is in identifying opportunities for airports, which are almost an afterthought in...

Current claims by government, major IT companies and educational institutions in the UK that IT skills offer enhanced inclusion into the new economy, are attracting women to the field of information systems. The needs of one social group – lone women parents – that IT skills initiatives seek to include will be analyzed in the light of another policy trend, the ‘work life balance’. Using narrati...

It is widely recognized that a Share Economy (SE) Pareto-dominates a FixedWage Economy (FWE) if unions care about employment. This begs the question, why profit sharing is less than ubiquitous. In this paper, we offer a solution to this conundrum by looking at particular transition arrangements from a FWE to a SE. We analytically show that despite the Pareto-dominance of a SE, the changeover fr...

It is widely agreed that the references of indexical expressions are fixed partly by their relations to contextual parameters such as the author, time, and place of the utterance. Because of this, indexicals are sometimes described as token-reflexive or utterance-reflexive in their semantics. But when we inquire into how indexicals help us to identify items within experience, we find that while...

The affordances introduced by digital technologies are reshaping consumption practices. Individuals are now engaging in networks rather than markets, and ownership-based consumption is giving way to the previously unattractive access-based, collaborative consumption. Such consumption practices produce different relationships between objects and personal identity, on which there is limited resea...