1996 年 27 巻 1 号 p. 187-200
“New community” realized by the radical development of Internet in these several years is a restless society causing successive competitions. This “extra-competitive society” requires business people to watch the trend of consumers and their rivals, and to plan and manage business while always considering competition with their fellow business people in or out of their area. To analyze the competition, comparison is made on the 47 prefectures as the unit of economic regional competition. They are ranked with various indexes such as information-network related business. It can be understood from the result of comparison that new business and/or consumers of new information sevices tend to disperse regardless of location of service-provider or consumer, however, new-business concerned subcontractors will centralize in several big city areas.