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Title: Assessing the pattern between economic and digital development of countries
Author: Cruz-Jesus, Frederico
Oliveira, Tiago
Bacao, Fernando
Irani, Zahir
Keywords: Developing countries
Diffusion
Digital divide
E-inclusion
Information society
Technology adoption
Software
Theoretical Computer Science
Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Issue Date: 1-Aug-2017
Abstract: This paper analyzes the digital development of 110 countries and its relationship with economic development. Using factor analysis, we combined seven ICT-related variables into a single measure of digital development. This measure was then used as the dependent variable in an OLS model that allows non-linear effects, with the GDP per capita of countries as the explanatory variable. Our findings are substantive in that the correlation between economic and digital development was found to be not linear, being much stronger in poorer countries, a finding not commonly seen in the literature. As a result, future studies that focus on the relationship between economic and digital developments may benefit from our findings, by postulating this type of relationship. In our model we were able to explain 83 % of the variation in the digital development of countries, compared to just 72 % if considering only a linear relationship.
Description: Cruz-Jesus, F., Oliveira, T., Bacao, F., & Irani, Z. (2017). Assessing the pattern between economic and digital development of countries. Information Systems Frontiers, 19(4), 835-854. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-016-9634-1 ---%ABS3%
Peer review: yes
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/138316
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-016-9634-1
ISSN: 1387-3326
Appears in Collections:NIMS: MagIC - Artigos em revista internacional com arbitragem científica (Peer-Review articles in international journals)

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