Information technology adoption and small and medium enterprise performance: Does information technology adoption reduce rural penalty in emerging and developing countries?

IF 1.1 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Chikadibia George Ekeoma
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Abstract

This study examines information technology (IT) adoption effects on the performance of small and medium enterprise (SMEs) in emerging markets and developing economies and how the locational challenges faced by rural SMEs could be reduced by IT adoption. Using 8466 firm-level data from the 2022/2023 World Bank enterprise survey from 13 countries, across Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, we used the entropy balancing technique and tested the effects of IT adoption on the relationship between remoteness and firm performance. Our results show that IT adoption positively affects firm performance and moderates the remoteness-performance relationship, indicating that IT adoption reduces the rural penalty faced by remote firms. These findings imply that modern firms with sophisticated production methods outperform traditional ones; therefore, adopting information technology would benefit traditional rural firms.

信息技术的采用与中小企业的绩效:采用信息技术是否会减少新兴国家和发展中国家的农村惩罚?
本研究探讨了信息技术(IT)的采用对新兴市场和发展中经济体中小企业(SMEs)绩效的影响,以及如何通过信息技术的采用减少农村中小企业面临的定位挑战。我们利用 2022/2023 年世界银行企业调查中来自欧洲和中亚、拉丁美洲、东南亚、南亚和撒哈拉以南非洲 13 个国家的 8466 个企业级数据,采用熵平衡技术,检验了信息技术的采用对偏远地区与企业绩效之间关系的影响。结果表明,信息技术的采用对企业绩效产生了积极影响,并调节了偏远地区与绩效之间的关系,表明信息技术的采用减少了偏远地区企业面临的农村惩罚。这些研究结果表明,拥有先进生产方法的现代企业优于传统企业;因此,采用信息技术将使传统农村企业受益。
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