ABSTRACT
In the era of the information age the growing intensity of exchange and the increased density of networks has been strongly encouraged and speeded up by a technological revolution which is spreading widely and acts both at the level of services and the production sectors. Telecommunications in general are responsible of new organizational patterns of the economic structure and society, resulting especially from the flexibility both of organizations in production, consumption and management and the social system, the instability of firms and their spatial behaviour (new logistics systems, the redistribution of functions, commercial distribution, the increase in functional autonomy), new local - global relationships, etc. As Castells points out (1996, p. 21): the informational society ‘indicates the attribute of a specific form of social organization in which information generation, processing and transmission become the fundamental sources of productivity and power’. The new information technologies increase the flexibility of all processes and contribute to the minimization of the distance between economy and society.
