This article gives a general overview of the main issues covered in the literature on the new economy. The latter is defined as an economy in which the emergence of a new production sector, that of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), affects the growth rate of productivity in...

Among the conventional strategic business models, companies decide which technologies should be used. Contrary to that, at present, technology takes the strategic decisions in businesses playing a role totally unknown so far. The way of managing businesses has modified the fundamental economic...