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In his keynote speech at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Blackpool on 1 October 2002, Tony Blair articulated the essence of business in the emerging synconomy:
The paradox of the modern world is this: We’ve never been more interdependent in our needs; and we’ve never been more individualist in our outlook. Globalization and technology open up vast new opportunities but also cause massive insecurity.1
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DiVanna, J.A. (2003). Introduction. In: Synconomy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230509559_1
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