B2B e-hubs in emerging landscape of knowledge based economy

Knowledge gradually becomes a driving force for the economic development. The progress of information and communication technology facilitates sharing of technologically and economically valuable knowledge and further integration of productive forces of humanity in emerging knowledge-based economy. This process has already revealed dominant structural formations and major approaches to the organisation of industrial production. This paper considers the development of e-Hubs for business-to-business collaboration and links this development with the issues of organisation of industrial production in future economy. 2004 Published by Elsevier B.V.