Is e-Government a Driver to Enhance Entrepreneurship? An Empirical Investigation of European Countries

IF 2 4区管理学 Q3 BUSINESS

Entrepreneurship Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI:10.1515/erj-2021-0487

Leavitt Ha

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Abstract

Abstract This paper investigates the influences of digital public services on the ease of setting up a new business in 28 European countries during the period of 2012–2019. The development of digital public services is reflected in business mobility and key enablers. The digitalization-entrepreneurship nexus is analyzed by using the panel corrected standard error (PCSE) model, while we employ the dynamic fixed effects estimator (DFE) used in the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to measure the short-run and long-run effects. Our results indicate that the online delivery of government services positively affects the density of entrepreneurship in a country. We find robust results utilizing various econometric techniques and adding further explanatory variables. However, the positive effects of offering public services online are only found in the long run. Using digital public services benefits the entrepreneurial sectors by reducing the time and costs required to start a new business. Notably, digital transformation in the public sector acts as a shield to protect enterprises by dampening the detrimental effects of uncertainty on entrepreneurship.

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电子政府是促进创业的动力吗?欧洲国家的实证调查

本文研究了2012-2019年期间欧洲28个国家的数字公共服务对创业难易度的影响。数字公共服务的发展体现在业务移动性和关键支持因素上。采用面板校正标准误差(PCSE)模型对数字化与创业关系进行了分析，并采用自回归分布滞后(ARDL)模型中的动态固定效应估计量(DFE)来衡量短期和长期效应。我们的研究结果表明，政府服务的在线提供对一个国家的创业密度有积极的影响。我们发现利用各种计量经济技术和增加进一步的解释变量稳健的结果。然而，提供在线公共服务的积极影响只有在长期才会发现。使用数字公共服务可以减少开办新企业所需的时间和成本，从而使创业部门受益。值得注意的是，公共部门的数字化转型通过抑制不确定性对创业的不利影响，起到了保护企业的作用。

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Entrepreneurship Research Journal BUSINESS-

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4.50

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21.10%

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期刊介绍： Entrepreneurship Research Journal (ERJ) was launched with an Inaugural Issue in 2011. Professor Ramona Zachary at Baruch College and Professor Chandra Mishra at Florida Atlantic University introduce a new forum for scholarly discussion on entrepreneurs and their activities, contexts, processes, strategies, and outcomes. Positioned as the premier new research journal within the field of entrepreneurship, ERJ seeks to encourage a scholarly exchange between researchers from any field of study who focus on entrepreneurs, and will include both theoretical and empirical articles, with priority being given to high quality theoretical and empirical papers that have managerial or public policy orientation as well as ramifications for entrepreneurship research overall. Topics: -Research Modeling, Design, and Methods: entrepreneurship theories and conceptualizations, entrepreneurship research methods. -The Individuals-Opportunities-Resources Nexus: nascent entrepreneurs, opportunity recognition, drivers of value creation, and emergence, innovation and technology entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial risk and reward, entrepreneurial cognition and behavior. -Inclusive of Near Environments: family entrepreneurship, networks, teams and alliances, venture capital and angel investor groups, entrepreneurial communities, hubs, clusters and public policy, social entrepreneurship. -Distinct Entrepreneurial Stage or Setting: entrepreneurial growth and strategy, boards, governance and leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, international and emerging market entrepreneurship.