As we are entering the New Millenium, we are witnessing a global shift toward a society of services. The evolution of the world's workforce structure indicates clearly the magnitude and importance of this mega-shift. The introduction of new, exciting technologies has led to a kind of New Economy that is based on the huge and rapid flows of data, information and knowledge. The Internet has had a...

Modern economy is based more and more on knowledge. Terms such as management of knowledge, organisational learning and intelligent organisations are becoming more widespread amongst world leading companies. Over the past few years, intangible resources, based on the exploitation of ideas, have turned progressively into the real motor behind developed economies, giving place to the so-called the...

Sharing economy platforms facilitate people's sharing of underutilized resources by adding value to their users, such as reducing transaction costs and building trust. However, it is discovered by practitioners that users may actually bypass, or 'disintermediate', the platforms to strike direct deals on their own. This phenomenon motivates this research to understand sharing economy user bypass...

Purpose: In recent years, the Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE) has been an emergent field related to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). current business models, organizations need be part of digital transformation create value for customers, which caused increase in number scientific publications on KBE. This study aims analyze research trends literature KBE published between 1986 ...

OECD's books, periodicals and statistical databases are now available via www.SourceOECD.org, our online library. Ask your librarian for more details of how to access OECD books on line, or write to us at [email protected] Today's " knowledge economies " are seeing the emergence of new paradigms for innovation and the advancement of knowledge in relation to economic activities. This report ex...

Using an overlapping generations model, this paper investigates the implications of status-seeking behavior, induced by preferences for relative income, for the evolution of income inequality. When average income rises, an individual’s marginal utility of their own income may increase (keeping up with the Joneses, or KUJ), or decrease (running away from the Joneses, or RAJ). It is shown that in...