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The authors use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of independent contracting and self-employment in California. They identify this work by the presence of a Schedule C on the tax return and/or the receipt of a Form 1099 information return. The authors estimate that 14.4% of California workers aged 18 to 64 in tax year 2016 had some independent contracting or self-employment income and approximately half of this subgroup also had earnings from traditional W-2 jobs during the year. Only a small share (1.4%) of workers had earnings from online labor platforms (often called gig work). Workers with low earnings were significantly more likely to earn independent contracting or self-employment income and to rely primarily or exclusively on that income. The article explores the characteristics of workers engaging in independent contracting and self-employment and their distribution across family type, geography, and industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a systematisation of the main factors of cognitive distortions and behavioural heuristics that make the switch to the effective interpreter model irreversible in portfolio investments, especially in high-tech companies. As the heuristic model of the effective interpreter can be perceived as generally increasing the risks in the system for all stakeholders at the current stage of the evolution of the investment system, the author focuses on the most negative manifestations of cognitive and behavioural factors in his description in the publication. However, this does not mean that it is possible or desirable to return to the rational investor model, as narrative and storytelling’s components are too important in the context of ‘new economy’ industry formation and and fast business expansion by disruptive companies. To better interpret the business potential of companies, stakeholders, especially investors, increasingly need to work with narratives, storytelling, aspects of perception and business trust, rather than the numerical values and ratios of financial reporting and analytics. This is partly due to the fact that the intangible assets of companies in the S&P500 index have accounted for up to 90% of the total market capitalisation over the last two decades.The author identifies the most significant cognitive and behavioral factors: the increase in the narrative component of equity value, the ‘fake it till you make it’ approach, the proliferation of cryptocurrencies as the asset with the largest narrative component of value, the boom in IPOs and SPACs in 2020-2021, buybacks as an unproductive signalling tool, the popularisation of chasing triple digit returns based on the survivor bias, the popularity of momentum strategies, the over-reliance on analyst recommendations and assessments, ‘pump and dump’ schemes, investment gamification and investor extroversion, anchoring and framing, the sunk cost fallacy, the lack of rigorous techniques for invalidating investment theses, and the perception of free money in investing over the past decade and a half. Awareness and tracking of at least the most significant behavioural and cognitive factors in the formation and further development of the heuristic model of the ‘effective interpreter’ will help to reduce risks in the financial and investment system of the ‘new economy’ and increase the sustainability of its long-term development.

The pivotal role of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in the global economic framework has brought the Asia-Pacific region into sharp focus, given its unique blend of burgeoning and mature economies. Historically, International Investment Agreements (IIAs) were designed to protect investors, but the rapid ascendancy of STI necessitates a recalibration of these accords. This article embarks on a detailed comparative analysis of IIAs in the Asia-Pacific, exploring the nuances of STI provisions therein. While some IIAs incorporate STI considerations, a holistic integration remains noticeably lacking. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development provides frameworks to quantify technological capabilities, emphasizing the transition to a 'knowledge economy'. Meanwhile, Intellectual Property Rights emerge with dual roles: fostering innovation while potentially hindering technological proliferation. The discussion delves into the necessity for IIAs, especially Bilateral Investment Treaties, and Free Trade Agreements, to fully embrace STI for maximizing global investment potential. The article's structure sequentially examines the 'New Economy', typologies of STI in IIAs, and the need for their incorporation, concluding with insights on the challenges and prospects of such integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New trends in the organization of economic and private life have added a major wrinkle to the still unfolding gender revolution. The decline of the standard employment relationship has eroded the ability of salaried and wage‐earning men to support a family household, while the decline of permanent, heterosexual marriage has undermined the traditional gender bargain that encouraged most women to provide unpaid caregiving in exchange for a partner's financial support. These widespread social shifts have created new economic insecurities and intensified work–family conflicts. Drawing on 120 in‐depth interviews with a diverse group of mid‐life adults, I examine how workers and parents are navigating these new conflicts and insecurities. Four work‐care strategies are emerging, all of which involve significant trade‐offs. Among the four patterns, however, people are most satisfied with an egalitarian strategy. A substantial proportion in the other groups, which include traditional couples, childless singles, and unequal dual‐earners, also express a preference for a more egalitarian sharing of work and care, although the preference for equality varies by gender. Effective social policy thus needs to insure that everyone—including people of all genders, class positions, and family circumstances—has the opportunity to forge a more equal, blended, and secure division of work and caregiving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New trends in the organization of economic and private life have added a major wrinkle to the still unfolding gender revolution. The decline of the standard employment relationship has eroded the ability of salaried and wage‐earning men to support a family household, while the decline of permanent, heterosexual marriage has undermined the traditional gender bargain that encouraged most women to provide unpaid caregiving in exchange for a partner's financial support. These widespread social shifts have created new economic insecurities and intensified work–family conflicts. Drawing on 120 in‐depth interviews with a diverse group of mid‐life adults, I examine how workers and parents are navigating these new conflicts and insecurities. Four work‐care strategies are emerging, all of which involve significant trade‐offs. Among the four patterns, however, people are most satisfied with an egalitarian strategy. A substantial proportion in the other groups, which include traditional couples, childless singles, and unequal dual‐earners, also express a preference for a more egalitarian sharing of work and care, although the preference for equality varies by gender. Effective social policy thus needs to insure that everyone—including people of all genders, class positions, and family circumstances—has the opportunity to forge a more equal, blended, and secure division of work and caregiving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cooperatives address societal challenges embracing values beyond mere profit-oriented production. Considering the ongoing shift to achieve efficient use of resources and increased circularity, cooperatives should be better equipped to incorporate circular economy (CE) and eco-innovation (EI) into their strategies (compared to regular enterprises). This paper reviews the scholarly literature focusing on the application of CE and EI within cooperative studies with the aim to understand the relationships between these topics, identify the existing scholarly communities, and to observe salient research themes. This study refined the method of van den Hoven and Rubalcaba (2016) to conduct a two-step bibliographic review of documents: a thematic analysis of citation data from Scopus (including a manual review of 16 papers) was followed by a bibliometric analysis of 101 documents from Web of Science (using R-Studio's Biblioshiny). Our results identified three intellectual clusters of cooperative studies focusing on the downstream of CE: (1) industrial ecology; (2) recycling; and (3) waste management. Our study also revealed an emerging scholarly field focused on cooperatives and CE, and with little attention to EI. These findings aim at catalyzing the integration of cooperatives more effectively into scholarly discussions, suggesting that environmental sustainability should be recognized as an additional principle of the cooperative identity—providing a wider perspective that enhances interest in the research of these topics and their interconnections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the ever-evolving landscape of the global economy, big data, the new generation of artificial intelligence, and block chain technology have risen as pivotal drivers of the data economy. These technologies are playing an increasingly vital role in catalyzing transformative changes within the sports industry and the broader digital economy. As the world economic patterns continue to shift and Internet technologies advance, the digital economy, particularly within the sports sector, faces higher demands and opportunities for innovation. In the context of China's economic development, the digital economy has emerged as a primary pathway to achieving high-quality economic growth. This paper embarks on a theoretical exploration of the profound impact of big data and blockchain technology within the sports industry, examining their current applications and potential. The research presented here seeks to unravel the intricate mechanisms through which big data and blockchain technology drive high-quality development within the sports sector's digital economy. By shedding light on these dynamics, this paper contributes valuable insights to guide and optimize the future of China's economic development, with a strong emphasis on the sports industry as a critical focal point for innovation and growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Precarious employment arrangements are increasingly common for knowledge workers, which challenges the construction of traditional work identifications. As transient work crosses both organizational and professional boundaries, individuals may seek stability in their self-definitions by identifying with core, repeated elements of the temporary relationships that they form again and again in their work lives—a notion we capture in proposing the concept of "professional network identification" (PNI). Developing the concept of PNI, we describe how it establishes coherence in self-conception in an environment of weakening traditional identifications. Relative to traditional forms of work identification, PNI leads individuals to engage with and disengage from relationships more swiftly, to prefer transient over more stable work relationships, and to be less constrained by the norms, values, and interests of a specific organization, profession, or relationship at work. This benefits individuals and organizations by facilitating productive outcomes in transient knowledge work, including proactive behavior and creativity. Because it reflects a fundamental untethering of individuals and organizations, PNI may also motivate individual behaviors that may be difficult for employers to anticipate or understand, particularly where it concerns the management of knowledge resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heterogeneity among corporate governance practices in emerging economies presents new challenges to researchers and business practitioners. Prior research in international business and comparative corporate governance has considered this practice heterogeneity in emerging markets as an outcome of institutional voids or deficiencies to be addressed. In contrast, we propose viewing the variety of governance practices as the outcome of an innovation process that aims to better align the prototypical best practices and the idiosyncratic institutional or industry contexts. We argue that companies in emerging countries innovate their governance practices by combining different elements of external and internal governance systems using local embeddedness and global agency. Our examples of governance innovations in the emerging markets of China and Korea illustrate that this focus on embeddedness and agency offers insights into the salience and applicability of different types of governance innovations, from decoupling of local practices from global rules to experimentations with governance practices by change agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first part of the article, the author compares various definitions of digital economy and spells out his own version of its essence and content. He defines digital economy as one of the models of new economy based on digital technology system. The author believes that digital technology system consists of various technologies, such as Big Data, high-speed wireless Internet, blockchain, cloud computing, Internet of things, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, virtual reality and others. The second part examines the current state of development of digital economy in various sectors of the economy and notes that the development of digital economy is led by the telecommunications industry, followed by the financial sector. The author emphasizes the need to develop a specific state policy to support the development of digital economy and suggests some ways to further expand it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digitalization has a significant impact on the sovereignty of the state and its national security. In its turn, national security determines the measures and requirements that apply to the informatization of society and information security. The relationsh ip between national security and digitalization means that one cannot talk about national security without taking into account the degree of digitalization of the country. The problems of digitalization of Ukraine has been researched by many authors. However, it takes on special significance now that national security is becoming especially important for the country. The purpose of the study is to estimate the state of digital development of Ukraine and the cyber threats that the country has experienced and formulate basic recommendations for the further digital development of Ukraine. The author examines the issue of digitalization from the point of view of strengthening Ukraine's position on the world stage, and those dangerous moments of digitalization that may appear in the case of military aggression. The author analyzes various indicators of digitalization as well as the state's contribution to the development of information and communication technologies. In particular, Ukraine improved its position according to the generalized indicator of the level of development of information and communication technologies NRI from 71st place in 2015 to 50th place in 2022. Calculations showed that in recent years the state did not allocate enough budget funds to the field of information and communication technologies. A different situation is observed for the private sector in 2019-2021 - the share of capital investments from internal sources of enterprises and organizations in the "Information and Telecommunications" section exceeds the average level of capital investments disbursed from such sources in the whole economy. The downside of digitalization is the increase in cyber attacks with the spread of information and communication technologies. The work examines those examples of cyber attacks that Ukraine has experienced since the beginning of Russian aggression. In the context of hostilities, Ukraine needs to increase the level of cyber protection, because the country is no t among the top ten countries in the world with the highest GCI score. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Productive activity that once look place within a single firm now occurs when two or more firms collaborate to form an "alliance." The agreements that govern alliances are not typical contracts containing prices and quantities. Rather, they are "framework agreements" that regulate process and specify the parties' tasks-e.g., conduct R&D: explore marketing opportunities: exchange proprietary knowledge: create a dispute-resolution structure: and develop a plan for a successful result. The COVID-19 vaccines provide an example: alliance partners reciprocally exploited their, flexibility and comparative advantages to create the vaccines. The COVID-19 collaborations, however, were unusual because there was both an assured demand for-and great reputational gains from-delivering the product, and public pressure to finish promptly deterred strategic behavior. In the usual case, it is difficult to induce potential parties to commit to a collaboration, to stay with it when doubts about success arise, and to exploit a successful result efficiently. Collaboration breakups at the startup and implementation stages are common. Yet, disappointed parties seldom sue. This Article makes two principal contributions. Our first contribution is to show that lawsuits do not occur for new collaboration breakups because current contract law provides no remedies for a party disappointed by a counterparty's defection. Our second contribution is to develop remedies that would encourage private parties to enter into and to stay with potentially productive collaborations. Thus, our goal is to extend contract law to a significant part of the economy whose deals today the law does not support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes whether financial statements should recognize more internally generated intangible assets with particular reference to China. This issue is significant because of the increasing importance of the 'new economy' and R&D investment, including in China. We present the current accounting requirements for intangible assets and illustrate that the failure to recognize internally generated intangible assets leads to a high ratio of unrecognized value to market capitalization, known as the asset light phenomenon among firms. We discuss and compare international and Chinese views supporting and opposing the recognition of more internally generated intangible assets. We identify and analyze the major issues in general, and in China particularly, that standard setters and their stakeholders have to consider if more internally generated intangible assets are recognized. We focus on areas of recognition, initial and subsequent measurement, and user reaction. We find that the most critical issues are the separability and measurability of internally generated intangible assets. Based on the issues identified, we discuss initiatives on non‐financial disclosure in relation to unrecognized intangible assets and firms' value creation. The study elucidates the consequences of current accounting standards on internally generated intangible assets and, by identifying the critical issues, contributes to the debate on whether it is best to adopt recognition of internally generated intangible assets or a disclosure‐only approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As employment relationships become more tenuous, as work grows increasingly virtual and as professional reputations circulate across online platforms, coworking provides individuals across various work arrangements with shared workspaces oriented towards sociability, visibility and convenience. Our study explores how coworking spaces also enable individuals to shape their professional identities while providing other important attributes of work to help it feel embodied and grounded. Drawing from interviews and surveys of members of a large coworking chain across the United States, we find that coworking spaces serve as identity anchoring environments. We find that many workers use material elements of the space to ground their professional identities in three ways: evidencing professional credibility, enacting a common ethos and energising connections with others. More broadly, we also find that coworking operators package and sell the physical, spatial and symbolic aspects of work to help certain workers signal their professional selves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current socio-economic realities, we observe rapid, multidirectional changes, which is undoubtedly the effect of the formation of the new economy. In this new economy, the role of the ICT sector is increasing, while the industry’s role is decreasing. As part of the changes, the role of socio-economic regions is also beginning to change. The new economy prefers regions with multifunctional modern structures, which at the same time adapt to the transformations that have taken place. These are regions where human capital is characterized by high quality and creativity. The aim of the article is to identify selected assumptions of the new economy and their implications for space and the shaping of regional development processes. To achieve this goal, the method of critical analysis of the object, the descriptive method and the heuristic approach were used.

A main concern in management studies is describing and understanding how firms manage risks. These concerns have to do with regulations in equipment supplier countries that require their companies to comply with state censorship and internal security laws. A shock to the 5G supply chain, in which key partners (such as Party-linked technology companies) I are i the source of the disruption is a different matter. In the case of 5G, Huawei, the Chinese company at the center of the ban, owns the lion's share of global 5G chips and is its most advanced provider of the technology. [Extracted from the article]

Universities play an important role in innovation ecosystems. In addition to developing human capital and advancing technology, they are increasingly expected to participate as economic development partners with industry and local, state, and national governments. Models such as the "Triple Helix" have been advanced to frame the assessment of interactions among academia, industry, and governments that may foster economic development. Such models highlight the boundary-spanning roles of universities and provide a predetermined list of actions universities could take to strengthen their ecosystem. Unfortunately, the flexible and entrepreneurial management of universities required to make this model work has virtually been ignored in the academic literature. We propose the dynamic capabilities framework to guide how universities might manage their innovation ecosystems. We use this framework to analyze the role of the university throughout the ecosystem lifecycle. These concepts are then illustrated with three case studies of universities that have engaged with partners in local economies to launch new industries, fostering entrepreneurship, and revitalize neighborhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The multidimensionality of urban space in light of the new economy seems complex. The aim of this research was to introduce the meaning of both ideas and emphasise their importance for urban development. The subject of the research were case studies of two European cities, Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Wroclaw (Poland). The research methods were the literature review, benchmarking, and case study, which help to understand and explain the analysed problem and confront it with the case studies. It is essential to note that the same solutions may not be suitable for every case. However, there are some urban policies and local governmental decisions that would be valuable good practices, which could solve challenges difficult for other urban units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the 70s, Foucault perceived that the implantation of a new form of governmentality, of a neoliberal sign, entailed a reconfiguration of subjetivity, shaping a new type of homo economicus, the entrepeneur of himself. The changes produced in the global economy and, particularly, in the organization of work, according to the principle of flexibility, encourages the extension of an entrepreneurial individuality. However, the apology for this human model tends to hide a precarious and uncertain work reality, which makes it difficult to develop a consistent personal biography and follow socially responsible courses of action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We address how value relevance of accounting information evolved as the new economy developed. Prior research concludes that accounting information—primarily earnings—has lost relevance. We consider more accounting items and find no decline in combined value relevance from 1962 to 2018. We assess evolution in each item's value relevance and find increases, most notably for items related to intangible assets, growth opportunities, and alternative performance measures, which are important in the new economy. The number of relevant items also increases. We also consider separately new economy, old economy profit, and old economy loss firms. The trends are more pronounced for, but extend beyond, new economy firms. We base inferences on a nonparametric approach that does not require specifying the valuation relation. Taken together, our findings reveal an evolution to a more nuanced, but not declining, relation between accounting information and share price. JEL Classifications: C14; G10; G18; M40; M41. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study aimed at shedding the light on the role of employing e-business (e-marketing, m-marketing, ecommerce, and m-commerce) in supporting and increasing productivity of human capital within Jordanian telecommunication organizations. Researcher depended on quantitative approach to achieve aim of study, for that sake, a questionnaire was utilized and distributed on (121) employees within telecommunication organizations in Jordan. Depending on SPSS, results of study indicated that the main hypothesis was accepted and "e-business strategies have statistically significant influence of human capital productivity" scoring an R value = 0.773 and 59.7% as a variation. In addition to that, all sub-variables were also influential, and it appeared that m-marketing was the most influential with an r= 0.707 and variation of 50%. From that result, current study recommended monitoring prohibited products in E-business as an approach to control this business field and avoid negative ramifications, in addition to that, study recommended focusing more on safety and credibility issues in e-business strategies given that some customers still find it difficult to trust e-business sources due to the lack of security, reliability and integrity issues. Further recommendations were presented later in the study. However, it is suggested to conduct a study that aims to shed the light on the impact of e-business on the dimensions of organizational performance (market share, profitability, customer service). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modern features of the moral and ethical values implementation in the individual’s and society’s economic life have been considered. The negative consequences of the moral norms current system in economic relations and the difficulties of taking into account the activity’s ethical aspects have been revealed. The economic life key problems of a part of modern society have been indicated, namely: “goals substitution by means” and “absolute norms loss”, which gradually turns the humanity’s life into an instinctive struggle of living organisms for the goods consumption. In conclusion, attention has been paid to the need to organise axiological studies of the Russian economic life and foreign countries in order to increase the economic security level of organisational and managerial solutions to the national economy problems.

In the new economy, with shrinking organizational supports and increased precarity for professional workers, networking has intensified as an entrepreneurial career management strategy. Networking is embedded in the logic of new work organizations, but less attention has been paid to its impact on gender inequality. Through fifty interviews with workers from one tech company and nine months of observations, I ask: (1) In the new economy, with intense networking demands, how does gender structure the networking strategies of workers? And (2) How does the organization of networking contribute to gender inequality? I find that individuals draw on masculinity and femininity as they network in ways that reproduce gender status hierarchies. The structure and culture of networking disproportionately limit the careers of women compared to men by shaping their (1) networking approaches; (2) attitudes about networking; and (3) resources gained from networking. Men network by strategically socializing, confidently building informal relationships with other men through masculine activities and leveraging these relationships for key resources. Women cannot similarly access informal relationships, and so they engage in strategic networking, attending formal networking events that are less effective in providing career resources. Women embodying an elite, white femininity locate personal support in the company-sponsored women's network. However, this group reinforces organizational boundaries by gender and race. This article advances sociological literature on inequality in the new economy, drawing on gender theory to demonstrate how in elite, male-dominated industries like technology, networking contributes to the maintenance of gender inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Quantitative identification of the location of cultural and creative industries has always been an important issue in the study of micro-locations in human geography. However, most of the previous studies on the location of cultural and creative industries focused on the macro description of the existing cultural and creative industry and lacked quantitative identification of micro-locations suitable for cultivating and developing cultural and creative industries. Therefore, based on the relevant location theory of cultural and creative industries, the urban creative field strength and its quantitative model are proposed. From the perspective of the built environment, 500 m × 500 m grids were established as analysis units based on multi-source data, including society, economy and geography data, using the geographic information system (GIS) analysis technology and spatial entropy weight overlay method to describe and visualize the micro-locations of urban cultural and creative industries. Based on the empirical study in Hangzhou, the following can be concluded: (1) the study method of "single index measurement–entropy method weighting–space weighted summation–hot spot analysis" constructed can quantitatively identify the micro-location of urban cultural and creative industries. It proves that the research framework proposed is scientifically valid. (2) The overall field strength of the creative field in Hangzhou has a circular structure with multiple centers, gradually decreasing outward from the main urban area of Hangzhou, with the sub-centers of the creative field scattered around the core urban area. The most suitable location for the cultivation and development of cultural and creative industries in Hangzhou is located in Wensan District as the core area, which includes Wensan Road, Xueyuan Road, Wulin Square, Hangzhou Future City-Xixi Wetland, etc. (3) The location around the provincial/city/district government land is the core area of creative field strength, which is more suitable for the development of cultural and creative industries. The farther from the core area, the smaller the creative field strength is, and the more obvious the attenuation of distance is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global experience shows that society has to be focused on the model of new economy and recommendations of cognitology to improve the reliability of the functioning and development of society. Although many publications partially suggest options for solving this problem, complex analysis of the resources for the development of Ukrainian society still lacks methodological and practical substantiation. Thus, this article is aimed at summarizing the prerequisites for the development of theoretical and practical support for the formation of a social pattern within the new economy alongside with the development and utilization of cognitive resources. The article presents analysis of a) the trend to change social patterns, and b) factors that ensure the switch to using new knowledge that can provide designing and implementing successful reforms of society, as a whole and its economic system, in particular. The article proposes a variant of a collective survey hypothesis: “In a steady growth of the role and value of the latest knowledge in the innovative development of the economy, the cognitive capital of the firm, that is, knowledge of how to produce the latest corporate knowledge becomes a critical factor in providing large-scale and continuous innovations and progressive social and economic development of a country, in general.” Almost all scientists performing research of resources for the development of new economy have determined that it updates knowledge development. Combining provisions of philosophy, psychology and management presented in various research works, we have formed the theoretical basis for studying the cognitive potential of an employee. The necessity of gradual introduction of a research component into the academic activity of higher school is substantiated. The characteristic of each stage is presented as for the following: the purpose of the educational process, the criteria for assessing its results, the peculiarities of student's academic counselling.

This paper aims at discussing about preventive mediation as a tool to foster dialogue and alignment between business partners, and, eventually, increase the potential for success and continuity of startups. Statistics show that the relationship difficulties between partners as one of the main causes for the high mortality rate of Brazilian startups. As a way of illustrating these statistics, interviews with startup founders were carried out in order to reveal their experiences in the negotiations for the establishment and management of the business. In conclusion, the article seeks to highlight the benefits of preventive mediation in the negotiation of partners' interests, needs and expectations, in order to increase the chances of constituting startups in an ecosystem of risks and uncertainties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regional logistics is an important part of the regional economy. It plays an important role in optimizing the allocation of regional resources, promoting the upgrading of regional industrial structure, and promoting the sustainable development of regional economy. It is known as the “accelerator” of regional economic growth. Under the background of the expanding regional economic differences in China, this article focuses on the important components of regional economy, researching on regional logistics in different regions. This article focuses on the regional logistics development level, the internal mechanism of regional logistics promoting regional economic growth, the current situation and influencing factors of regional logistics development level differences, and the regional logistics development level differences. The purpose of this article is to study the application of artificial intelligence technology to the spatial difference analysis of China’s regional logistics development and the construction of information network platform under the background of the new economy. In this article, factor analysis is used to construct the index system. The research shows that the intensity of regional logistics connection is significantly enhanced, the regional logistics network is further improved, and a relatively complete multilevel regional logistics network structure is basically formed. In addition, there are great differences in the level of logistics development among regions. The characteristics of the spatial distribution circle in the eastern, central, and western regions are obvious, which is positively related to the economic development, in the Pearl River Delta with the strongest comprehensive competitiveness. The score coefficient of the Yangtze River Delta logistics area is 1.464, and the score coefficient of the northwest logistics weakest area is −0.328. The development of regional logistics can focus on the construction of logistics park, the construction of logistics network system, the progress of regional ogistics technology, and the improvement of logistics efficiency. The construction of logistics park is conducive to the integration of regional logistics resources, improves the utilization efficiency of regional logistics resources, forms the economies of scale, and then reduces the transaction cost of the whole region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A paradox exists between capital accumulation and corporate philanthropy: a record number of 'generous' donations and historic levels of social inequality. In education, tech companies are directing significant investments to shape public schools. Many efforts to support Latino boys are aligned with these goals, as interventions aim to prepare students for the 'new economy.' Few studies consider the experiences of high-performing Latino boys in relation to tech companies. This paper examines how the Bay Area tech industry, gentrification, and displacement impact the lives of high-performing Latino boys. We draw from an ethnographic study conducted by the first author in the Bay Area of Northern California. This paper shows the way students develop an understanding and actively protest their racialized predicament (i.e. resistance logics), while learning skills to acquire jobs in the tech economy that often appears to perpetuate this racialization (i.e. market logics). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]