TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ohmae, Kenichi
TI  - The end of the nation state : the rise of regional eonomies
SN  - 0-02-923341-0
U1  - C 337.1 Oh4 
CY  - New York 
KW  - Regionalism
KW  - Trade blocs
N2  - Ever since I wrote The Mind of the Strategist, my professional activities have been largely devoted to helping managers and policymakers alike understand, adapt to, and leverage the primary forces shaping the global economy. Chief among these forces, in my view, are the ir-reversible effects of technology in particular, modern information technology on the structure of business processes and on the val-ues, judgments, and preferences of citizens and consumers in all parts of the world. Indeed, so powerful are these effects that, once the genie of global information flow really gets out of the bottle-and it is certainly out of the bottle now there can be no turning back. Against this kind of current, no traditional strategy, no familiar line of policy, and no entrenched form of organization can stand untouched or unchanged
ER  -