Introduction The rise of the World Wide Web and electronic commerce has created one of the most challenging environments for entrepreneurship in recent history. Market needs and the technology required to meet those needs can change even while the product or service is still being developed (Iansiti and MacCormak, 1997). This framework demands that founders of organizations strive for "relentle...

Compact city development has, over the last 20 years or so, emerged as the preferred response to the goal of sustainable development. As such, it is pertinent to examine planning practices to see whether the traditional economic bias in planning is now balanced by aims and practices in support of environmental and social sustainability. In this light the social, environmental, and economic goal...