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Based on the results of an ongoing study into the impact of e-commerce on UK business. The authors have provided input from both academic and commercial viewpoints. The intention is to monitor the changing landscape of the commercial world over a period of time and this study provides grounding to this process, drawing some important conclusions that will have an effect across a large section of UK business. The paper charts the advent of the e-commerce revolution and how business is adapting to this new paradigm. Examples include the Co-operative Bank, Waterstones and RS Components. Legal aspects of the Internet and commerce on it are also interpreted with ramifications for organisations that are protecting their data as well as positioning themselves to exploit the commercial opportunities that the Internet offers.

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McDonald F., Huang Q., Tsagdis D. and Tuselmann H. J. (2007) Is there evidence to support Porter-type cluster policies?, Regional Studies 41, 39-49. The paper examines the views, often associated with Porter, that clusters with deep collaborative networks and established local supply chains have good performance. The view that good cluster performance is not connected to the industrial sector is also assessed. Data from a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) study on UK clusters are used to assess the impact on performance (employment growth and international competitiveness) of cluster depth, the stage of development of local supply chains, and industrial sector. The results of the analysis of the DTI data on clusters do not provide strong support for Porter-type views on cluster policy. Although established clusters are linked to employment growth, deep clusters are not associated with employment growth or international competitiveness, and clusters in the services, and media, computer-related and biotechnology sectors are more likely than manufacturing clusters to have good performance. Some of the major policy implications of the results are discussed in the light of the literature on the importance of regional, national, and international networks for the performance of clusters. McDonald F., Huang Q., Tsagdis D. et Tuselmann H. J. (2007) Confirmer les politiques de regroupement du type Porter, Regional Studies 41, 39-49. Cet article cherche a examiner l'affirmation, souvent attribuee a Porter, que les regroupements fondes sur des reseaux de collaboration tres developpes et des chaines d'approvisionnement locales bien etablies ont de bons resultats. On evalue aussi l'affirmation que la bonne performance des regroupements ne s'explique pas par le secteur industriel en question. On emploie des donnees provenant d'une etude menee par le Department of Trade and Industry (DTI - le ministere de l'Industrie et du Commerce) aupres des regroupements au R-U afin d'evaluer l'impact sur la performance (la croissance de l'emploi et la competitivite internationale) de l'intensite des regroupements, de la phase de developpement des chaines d'approvisionnement, et du secteur industriel dont il s'agit. Les resultats de l'analyse des donnees DTI sur les regroupements ne viennent pas fortement a l'appui de l'affirmation du type Porter sur la politique en faveur des regroupements. Bien que les regroupements bien etablis soient lies a la croissance de l'emploi, les regroupements a forte intensite ne sont en correlation ni avec la croissance de l'emploi, ni avec la competitivite internationale. Il s'avere aussi que les regroupements dans le tertiaire, les media et les secteurs lies a l'informatique et a la biotechnologie, sont plus susceptibles d'avoir de bons resultats que ne le sont les regroupements industriels. On discute de quelques-unes des principales implications des resultats pour la politique a la lumiere de la documentation sur l'importance des reseaux regionaux, nationaux et internationaux pour la performance des re...

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