, World Bank. K-means clustering technique was applied to explore the natural grouping of the Asia-Pacific countries based on … 2012 to 2017 was collected from International Telecommunication Union (ITU) database and World Development Indicators … regression technique. Findings: Clustering of countries suggested a significant difference amongst the Asia-Pacific countries in …

This paper analyzes the adoption patterns of selected internet services such as eCommerce, eBanking and eGovernment in …, education and levels of internet and computer skills are all significant in explaining the adoption of any of the three services …; as are gender and income, but just for eCommerce and eBanking. Interestingly, the level of trust in internet is only …

Following the 'death of distance' postulate, digitization may reduce or even eliminate the penalty of firms being … located in rural areas compared with those in urban agglomerations. Despite many recent attempts to measure digitization … degree of digitization of the respective firm - is highly dependent on location, whereby firms in urban areas are more than …

new world of shared prosperity, a global renaissance. At the same time, it also holds out the danger of economic …