This paper look at surveillance capitalism as described in the book by Shoshana Zubof, and discuss whether surveillance capitalism represents a new stage of capitalist development. This is done by using the theory of techno-economic paradigms as a theoretical framework.

The analysis addresses the issues of how businesses interact in the light of continuous maturation of business-to-business e-commerce. The development of cheaper and more standardised information and communication technologies (ICTs) extends and deepens electronic networks, which may lead to...