2022
DOI: 10.1007/s10037-022-00170-5
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Digital divide, craft firms’ websites and urban-rural disparities—empirical evidence from a web-scraping approach

Abstract: Following the “death of distance” postulate, digitalization 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 digitalization effects across space, there remains a lack of empirical evidence regarding the adoption of digital technologies from an explicit spatial perspective. Using web-scraping data for a sample of 345,000 small firms in Germany, we analyze the determinants of website prevalence. Com… Show more

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“…whether or not high-speed internet access is available). Both are often seen as a locational disadvantage of rural areas, potentially limiting the ability of rural SMEs to seize the benefits of digital ICT (van der Loo et al, 2015;Palmer-Abbs et al, 2021;Thonipara et al, 2022). A second-level digital divide between rural and urban areas may exist in terms of ICT usage and the availability of relevant skills and capabilities.…”
Section: Urban-rural Digital Dividementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…whether or not high-speed internet access is available). Both are often seen as a locational disadvantage of rural areas, potentially limiting the ability of rural SMEs to seize the benefits of digital ICT (van der Loo et al, 2015;Palmer-Abbs et al, 2021;Thonipara et al, 2022). A second-level digital divide between rural and urban areas may exist in terms of ICT usage and the availability of relevant skills and capabilities.…”
Section: Urban-rural Digital Dividementioning
confidence: 99%
“…A second-level digital divide between rural and urban areas may exist in terms of ICT usage and the availability of relevant skills and capabilities. In these cases, driving factors such as the qualification and age of the workforce may be weaker in rural companies than in urban areas, which could leave small firms in rural regions at a long-term disadvantage in the digital transformation process (Richmond et al, 2017;Fanelli, 2021;Thonipara et al, 2022). Hence, there are two further working propositions.…”
Section: Urban-rural Digital Dividementioning
confidence: 99%
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