Hubs, nodes and by–passed places: a typology of e–commerce regions in the United States

Matthew A. Zook

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2002, vol. 93, issue 5, 509-521

Abstract: This paper assesses US metropolitan regions in terms of the adoption of e–commerce by businesses using a combination of data from Interactive Week, Alexa Research and Hoover’s Online. This analysis shows that e–commerce is providing the impetus and means to reorganise the economic and geographic space in which businesses operate. Spatial divisions in the use of e–commerce are identified in which many cities in the South and Midwest appear to be lagging behind their counterparts in other parts of the country. Thus, rather than the destruction of place and geography predicted by some, e–commerce is reorganising the economic space in which businesses operate. Although not every place will become a major e–commerce hub, all regions will be shaped by the way in which firms adapt to this new commercial medium.

Date: 2002
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