Journal of Applied Economic Research
ISSN 2712-7435
The Methodological Approach to the Research of Entities Economic Activity Efficiency of Regional Informatization Process
Kadtsyna E.S.
Abstract
In this article, the issue of the efficiency of digitization is discussed. The problem of efficiency assessment has been sufficiently studied at a micro-level, but additional research is necessary at meso - and macro-levels. Along with it, there is also the problem of the development of political measures stimulating the activities of entities of regional informatization process. The research objectives were the following: to propose a technique for the formation of a statistical base about entities at different economic levels under the conditions of limited data, especially concerning the indices of the economic activity of digitization process entities; to determine empirically the efficiency of information technologies application for businesses consuming IT-products; to suggest opportunities for developing and improving the efficiency of the entities connected to informatization process; to prove the effectiveness of the proposed measures and to define the expected outcomes. In the course of the research, a methodological approach was proposed to the formation of an economic system of digitization entities including the main agents: heavy industry, and the IT sector. The economic analysis for the purpose of determining the functioning efficiency of entities in the economic system was performed; variations of effective support measures are determined. As a result, the effect of IT for the activity of enterprises consuming IT-products was empirically confirmed and determined. Comprehensive measures of optimization for the development of the activity of entities in the economic system with a projected effect were developed. The application of the approach could prove the effectiveness of the development of digitization process for a regional economy and the need to render support to business entities with a potential of their further development with an emphasis on stronger innovative activity. The research results can be used for the development of a system of stimulating measures when forming strategic regional programs of informatization and also for the purpose of prediction and simulation of different development scenarios of informatization in the long term, both on meso- and at microeconomic levels.
Keywords
information technologies; innovations; automation; methodological approach; technique of "portrait" typification of agents; economic system; informatization; sector of the heavy industry; information and technological sector; tax preferences.
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About Authors
Kadtsyna Elena Sergeevna – Post-Graduate Student, Institute of Economics, the Ural Branch of RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia (620014, Ekaterinburg, Moskovskaya street, 29); e-mail: esgudz@yandex.ru.
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Kadtsyna E.S. The Methodological Approach to the Research of Entities Economic Activity Efficiency of Regional Informatization Process. Bulletin of Ural <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Federal</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Series Economics and Management, 2018, Vol. 17, No. 1, 26-51. DOI: 10.15826/vestnik.2018.17.1.002.
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Received October 24, 2017; Accepted February 12, 2018.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2018.17.1.002
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