ABSTRACT
In approaching the end of the twentieth century, one cannot but be struck by both the similarities and differences of circumstances to those faced by our forefathers a hundred years ago. Then, as now, was an era of dramatic and widespread technological change.2 Then, as now, a new generation of telecommunication advances was shrinking the boundaries of economic activity. Then, as now, the organizational structures of firms and the socio–institutional framework of countries were in a state of flux. Then, as now, the cartography of political space was being reconfigured. Then, as now, the jurisdiction of national governments was being questioned, and the locus and composition of civic responsibilities were being redefined. Then, as now, new relationships and alliances were being forged between, and within, private and public institutions, and among different ethnic, religious and social groups.
