The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria Approach
High-quality digital infrastructure is the basis of almost every sector of a modern and innovative economy and society. As a part of the overall competitiveness concept, digital competitiveness is a multidimensional structure that encompasses various factors of the process of digital transformation...
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| author | Jelena J. Stankovic Ivana Marjanovic Sasa Drezgic Zarko Popovic |
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| description | High-quality digital infrastructure is the basis of almost every sector of a modern and innovative economy and society. As a part of the overall competitiveness concept, digital competitiveness is a multidimensional structure that encompasses various factors of the process of digital transformation through the ability of learning and application of new technologies, technology factors that enable digital transformation, and digital readiness factors that assess the preparedness of an economy and citizens to assume digital transformation. The paper aims to propose a methodology for measuring digital competitiveness using a composite index approach including a variety of various indicators. To assess the digital competitiveness of European countries, a multi-criteria analysis was applied in a two-stage procedure integrating CRITIC and TOPSIS as weighting and aggregation methods. The sample includes thirty European countries and the research is based on thirteen indicators provided in the database Eurostat Digital Economy and Society. In addition, a ranking of sample countries according to digital competitiveness is presented. Finally, a cluster analysis was conducted to examine relations between digital competitiveness and several economic performances such as GDP pc, labour productivity and employment rates. The results indicate that Nordic countries have achieved the highest digital competitiveness, while most Eastern European countries still lag behind. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b210c233dde4a8587c42ee8cd04b08d2022-12-21T20:12:39ZengTomas Bata University in ZlínJournal of Competitiveness1804-171X1804-17282021-06-0113211713410.7441/joc.2021.02.07The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria ApproachJelena J. Stankovic0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9875-9861Ivana Marjanovic1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9526-0467Sasa Drezgic2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7712-8112Zarko Popovic3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4347-6960University of NišUniversity of NišUniversity of RijekaUniversity of NišHigh-quality digital infrastructure is the basis of almost every sector of a modern and innovative economy and society. As a part of the overall competitiveness concept, digital competitiveness is a multidimensional structure that encompasses various factors of the process of digital transformation through the ability of learning and application of new technologies, technology factors that enable digital transformation, and digital readiness factors that assess the preparedness of an economy and citizens to assume digital transformation. The paper aims to propose a methodology for measuring digital competitiveness using a composite index approach including a variety of various indicators. To assess the digital competitiveness of European countries, a multi-criteria analysis was applied in a two-stage procedure integrating CRITIC and TOPSIS as weighting and aggregation methods. The sample includes thirty European countries and the research is based on thirteen indicators provided in the database Eurostat Digital Economy and Society. In addition, a ranking of sample countries according to digital competitiveness is presented. Finally, a cluster analysis was conducted to examine relations between digital competitiveness and several economic performances such as GDP pc, labour productivity and employment rates. The results indicate that Nordic countries have achieved the highest digital competitiveness, while most Eastern European countries still lag behind.https://www.cjournal.cz/files/408.pdfdigital competitivenesscritic methodtopsis methodcluster analysis |
| spellingShingle | Jelena J. Stankovic Ivana Marjanovic Sasa Drezgic Zarko Popovic The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria Approach Journal of Competitiveness digital competitiveness critic method topsis method cluster analysis |
| title | The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria Approach |
| title_full | The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria Approach |
| title_fullStr | The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria Approach |
| title_short | The Digital Competitiveness of European Countries: A Multiple-Criteria Approach |
| title_sort | digital competitiveness of european countries a multiple criteria approach |
| topic | digital competitiveness critic method topsis method cluster analysis |
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