| Title: | Past, present, and intended digitalization around the world : leading, catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind |
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| Authors: | ID Samsami, Mahsa (Author)
ID Schøtt, Thomas (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://journals.um.si/index.php/oe/article/view/2421
https://journals.um.si/index.php/oe/article/view/2421
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | EPF - Faculty of Business and Economics
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| Abstract: | Businesses around the world are rapidly adopting digital technologies.
Adoption, though, is not even, but it varies over time and differs from
society to society, depending on resources in the ecosystem. This study
addresses how past, present, and future digitalization is developing globally
and, in each society, depending on its resources. A survey of businesses in
47 countries, conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in 2021,
provides national-level measures of digital technology adoption before
and during the pandemic and the intention for adoption in the near future.
Adoption of digital technology is found to vary significantly across both time
and place. Before the pandemic, adoption was concentrated in the wealthiest
societies. The pandemic was an external enabler, pushing less digitalized
societies to catch up, independent of national economies, thus entailing
some convergence. The early pandemic has been followed by intentions
to digitalize, which differ widely, entailing some divergence. Intentions are
strong in some societies that are forging ahead, but they are weaker in some
less-digitalized and low-income societies that may be falling behind. The
findings contribute to understanding digitalization as a global phenomenon
and the pandemic as an external enabler that has promoted catching up
and convergence in digitalization. Still, recovery is uneven and entailing
divergence, as some societies are forging ahead while others are falling
behind. |
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| Keywords: | digitalization, adoption of technology, external enabler, globalization, inequality, convergence, divergence |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 05.10.2022 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1-9 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 68, no. 3 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-84543-fb2e782d-09aa-8b32-289e-26aea6d5d280  |
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| UDC: | 005.4:004.7 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0547-3101 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 131410435 |
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| DOI: | 10.2478/ngoe-2022-0013 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 19.06.2023 |
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| Views: | 660 |
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| Downloads: | 58 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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