Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard; Atefeh Mehrparvar Hosseini; Shima Salehi Moghadam
Abstract
Since information and communications technology has development potentials in all aspects, assessing the impact of IT development on improving the business environment is very important. In this paper, using 2017 global data, 140 countries of the world were divided into 4 clusters with a credit score ...
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Since information and communications technology has development potentials in all aspects, assessing the impact of IT development on improving the business environment is very important. In this paper, using 2017 global data, 140 countries of the world were divided into 4 clusters with a credit score index of Silhouette 0.705 based on the indicators of e-commerce and e-government development by K-mean method. Based on the results, countries with higher ICT indicators, which often are members of the first cluster, also have higher rankings in business environment indicators. Iran is ranked 124th in doing business and is above of average of the third cluster, but in terms of ICT indicators is in the second cluster. It is suggested that, by studying how to use ICT infrastructures in leading countries, Iran can develop strategies to increase the effectiveness of information technology in improving the business environment.
