The Internet Galaxy

By Manuel Castells. 2002

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Make Money Surfing the Web? The Impact of Internet Use on the Earnings of U.S. Workers (2008, background): “The commercialization of the Internet in the second half of the 1990s reproduced this pattern once again (Castells 2001; Turner 2006).”
Representation of the Online Tourism Domain in Search Engines (2008, background): “Search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Ask collect a huge number of Web pages and thus, serve as the “Hubble Telescope” with which people access and learn about the entire virtual “galaxy” (Castells 2001; Spink et al. 2002).”
New games, new rules: big data and the changing context of strategy (2015, background): “…on industry dynamics and firm’s unique resources have been central in the analysis of strategic ISs impact, especially in the context of a network economy characterized by competition in volatile environments, high-speed technological change and uncertainty (Castells, 2001; Merali et al., 2012).”
Globalization and Inequality (2008, background): “ICTs, together with liberalized and internationalized financial transactions, create a financial ‘supermarket’ for global business-to-business transaction and stock exchanges, cross-border banking, and finance that stretch across the world on a real-time basis (Greenspan, 1997; Castells, 2001).”
The Global Network Society and the Global Public Sphere (2003, background): “…globalization process and creates a new global ‘network society’ (Castells, 1996) – not in McLuhan’s sense of ‘sameness’ but rather in the 12 sense of a new globalized ‘networked individualism’ (Castells, 2001) in which ‘identity’ is defined along the lines of new cultural and political parameters.”
Organizational networks and the process of corporate entrepreneurship: how the motivation, opportunity, and ability to act affect firm knowledge, learning, and innovation (2015, background): “In this view, knowledge-based resources are considered particularly important for providing sustainable competitive advantage (Wiklund and Shepherd 2003) as they work to facilitate competitive differentiation (McEvily and Chakravarthy 2002), improve firm performance, and play an essential role in th”
De-globalization: Theories, predictions, and opportunities for international business research (2019, background): “Among the fruits of these efforts are the Internet, which grew out of a defense initiative for distributed computing (Castells, 2002), as well as the US microelectronics and aviation industries (Hooks, 1990).”
Understanding the Complexity in Electronic Government: Implications from the Digital Divide Literature (2005, background): “Definitions use demographic attributes such as race, ethnicity, income, and geography to express differences among groups and see the digital divide or divides as a mirror of social inequality (Castells, 2001; Norris, 2001; Warschauer, 2003).”
Towards an Ecology of Retail Financial Services: Understanding the Persistence of Door-to-Door Credit and Insurance Providers (2004, neutral): “From the work of Castells (2001), and that of actor-network theorists such as Latour, Callon, and others (Callon, 1988; Law and Hassard, 1999), the metaphor of the network is now widely usedwithin economicallyoriented research togive a sense of the relative connectedness of individuals,…”
Africa and the digital divide (2008, background): “Manuel Castells defines the digital divide as ‘‘inequality of access to the Internet’’ (Castells, 2002, p. 248).”
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations (2007, background): “The solution, the fit for the customer, is the key to success, not the historical reliability of the tried and true business process (Castells, 2001).”