Ecommerce is considered to provide substantial benefits to business. It enables new ways of working to emerge as organisations face the future and embrace the notion of the 'new economy'. SMEs in regional areas of Australia are lagging in their adoption of e-commerce. This paper examines the reasons for the adoption and non-adoption of ecommerce by regional SMEs. The research is exploratory and...

This paper models uctuations in regional disaggregates as a nonstationary, dynamically evolving distribution. Doing so enables study of the dynamics of aggregate uctuations jointly with those of the rich cross-section of regional disaggregates. For the US, the leading state| regardless of which it happens to be|contains strong predictive power for aggregate uctuations. This e ect is di cult to ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the shadow economy in the Spanish Autonomous Communities. In so doing, we employ the Currency Demand Approach to analyze the 1987–2010 period. The results show that the size of the shadow economy ranges from 18% to 30% of regional GDP and an approximate mean value of 25% for the entire territory. The Personal Income Tax has the greatest impact on the shadow e...

To implement the grand western development strategy and to speed up the regional economic development is a vital decision of the central government in the new century. Foreign economy and trade is an important component of national economy. To develop the foreign economy and trade in western area and to speed up the opening-up process is significant to drive the economic and social development ...

Regionalization is one of important trends in the development of the world economy. Its development path and development goal are gradually becoming a hot issue concerned and studied by governments of all countries. Construction of a secondary provincial center city has been a new concept in recent years, and also a significant approach to the development of regional economy. Liaoning Province ...

In a partially reformed economy, distortions beget distortions. Segments of the economy that are freed from centralized control respond to the rent-seeking opportunities implicit in the remaining distortions of the economy. The battle to capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move forward. In this paper I illustrate t...

this article reviews past developments of the shanghai cooperation organization (sco) and studies its potentialities in the areas of economy, trade, investment, energy and military power. a study conducted on statistical information of the sco state members shows that the organisation has the capacity to be turned into one of the biggest international hubs in the fields of economy, trade, forei...

Adoption of mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may affect other members of the society, producing a situation of trade-offs. In this study, such a trade-off is has been analyzed using three aspects of the Canadian society: producers (farm level adopter), environment (through reduction in the GHG emissions),; and regional economy (including rest of the society through lost / ...

In the field of tourism, the development of tourist attractions is gradually playing a crucial role in tourism economy, regional economy and national economy. While tourism economy is stimulated by growing demand, tourist attractions have been facing the situation that ecological environment is becoming fragile and environmental protection is increasingly difficult in China. As low-carbon econo...

Research on the knowledge economy has in recent years focused upon the interplay between place, individuals and creativity. National differences of how capitalism is organised can be drawn into this discussion, but are seldom tested systematically. By investigating data from the UK as a Liberal Market Economy and Sweden as a Coordinated M arket Economy, we develop and test 8 hypotheses to analy...