part Part I Introduction -- chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- chapter 2 Assessing the Profitability Potential of a Strategy -- chapter 3 The Long Tail and New Games -- part Part II Strengths and Weaknesses -- chapter 4 Creating and Appropriating Value Using New Game Strategies -- chapter 5...

A firm's local environment can constitute a source of national or regional cornpetitive advantage. An important question, therefore, is how these environments come about and how they can be lost. In this paper, we argue that a local environment is a function of the process of technological...