Assessment and support of the digitalization of businesses in Europe during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Wojciech Dyba, Eleonora Di Maria

The COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020-2021 has created an unprecedented incentive to digitize firms. This paper aims to explore how European companies may have responded to COVID‐19 through digitalization. An online survey of experts from 22 European countries showed that software technologies supporting online meetings, remote working and e-commerce began to be widely adopted during the pandemic. Online meetings and the reduction of business travel are perceived as common, long‐term effects of digitalization in European companies after the COVID‐19 pandemic. The barriers to digitalization and the measures considered to be the most effective in supporting digitalization have also been identified.

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Year of publication:	2024
Authors:	Dyba, Wojciech ; Di Maria, Eleonora
Published in:	Regional science policy and practice : RSPP. - [Amsterdam] : Elsevier B.V., ISSN 1757-7802, ZDB-ID 2489429-1. - Vol. 16.2024, 1, Art.-No. 12717, p. 1-16
Subject:	barriers \| companies \| COVID-19 \| digitalization \| factors \| support \| Coronavirus \| Digitalisierung \| Digitization \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries \| Electronic Commerce \| E-commerce \| Epidemie \| Epidemic

Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1111/rsp3.12717 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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