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Porter and Tapscott Polemics - Are there new business objectives and methods to achieve them?
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Introduction The tremendous growth of the information and communications technologies (ICT) and its deep penetration in all areas of human activities, is profoundly reshaping the economic, societal and private life landscape of the world of today. The issue of the Internet was actually the core reason for a theoretical division of the economy in two large categories: "new economy", comprised of companies that apply these technological advances up to various extents, and the "old economy", which includes all the others. It has also initiated vivid discussions and theoretical confrontations, due to the sharply dissonant perceptions of the transformational impact of the Internet on the economic activities. The extreme standpoints of this broad theoretical spectrum are varying from oversimplified view of Internet as just one more communication channel, to a glorifying declaration that the Internet is an originator of unthinkably different, new economy and new society of 21st century, whose implications is not...
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