Received:
2019-08-18 | Accepted:
2019-09-26 | Published:
2019-12-15
Title
An assessment of impact of information and communication technology in enterprızes of Korça region
Abstract
Ever-evolving and increasingly powerful Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally changed the nature of global relationships, sources of competitive advantage and opportunities for economic and social development. ICTs have greatly increased the impact on every area of human life. Technologies such as the Internet, personal computers and wireless have turned the globe into a network of individuals, businesses, governments, and ever-growing schools who communicate and interact with one another. Without doubt ICTs plays a strategic role in managing organizations. This paper presents a part of the current state of ICTs for enterprises by establishing comparative bases for further studies in this field. It also helps academic institutions to evaluate and identify factors, as well as the specific role and weight of these factors have in the process of developing ICTs towards a developed economy and society in the context of digital Albania. It is presented as a scientific analyse, accomplished, detailed and expressed in percentage and graphical analysis of a number of very important data sets of enterprises in their full form, to unlock developments in the field of ICTs in our country, including specific ones based on concrete data. This study tends to study the extent to which these but have involved ICTs and what impact these technologies have in the daily work of these organizations in part of Albania (Korca Region)and brings its contribution as a perspective of literature, experience and international studies, the level of development of our country regarding the assessment of electronic readiness of business organizations.
Keywords
e-readiness, businesses organizations, information and communication technologies, Internet, impact
JEL classifications
O32
URI
http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/23
DOI
HAL
Pages
334-342
Funding
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Authors
Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, Valmiera, Latvia
https://va.lv
Journal title
Insights into Regional Development
Volume
1
Number
4
Issue date
December 2019
Issue DOI
ISSN
ISSN 2345-0282 (online)
Publisher
VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Cited
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