Assessment of relationships between smart technologies, corporate sustainability, and economic behavior of companies

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2023.275731

Keywords:

smart technologies, corporate sustainable development, economic behavior of companies, structural model of relations

Abstract

The object of this study is the economic behavior of companies. The study solved the problem of conceptualizing the economic behavior of companies, taking into account the need to adhere to the goals of sustainable development and the use of smart technologies. It has been established that to assess the level of sustainable development of companies, economic, environmental, social, and managerial criteria based on corporate social responsibility are used. It is determined that smart technologies are associated with the introduction into production of cyber-physical systems integrating information and communication technologies into physical processes. To expand the possibilities of assessing the use of smart technologies, it is proposed to collect data on the expenditure of companies for a particular technology and the amount of revenue generated using this technology. The structural model for measuring the relationships between the use of smart technologies, sustainable development, and the economic behavior of companies was calculated using the PLS-SEM method. It has been established that currently, in fact, an increase in the burden on the environment, extensive use of resources for the countries of the European Union and Ukraine activates the economic behavior of companies because the coefficient of the path for load indicators is 0.916. At the same time, increasing the use of smart technologies by 1 will increase economic development indicators by only 0.104. This indicates a lesser power of the link between economic behavior and the use of smart technologies. However, the statistical significance and positive direction of the relationship between economic behavior and the use of smart technologies gives reason to recommend that the management of industrial companies pay special attention to the development of the integration of smart technologies into business processes.

Author Biographies

Olga Popova, Donetsk National Technical University

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Head of Department

Department of Management and Financial and Economic Security

Anna Chechel, Mariupol State University; University of Cambridge

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Head of Department

Department of Public Management and Administration

Visiting Academic

Cambridge Judge Business School

Olena Fomina, Donetsk National Technical University

PhD, Associate Professor, Head of Department of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies

Department Enterprise Economics

Ganna Myroshnychenko, National Aviation University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Economics and Business Technologies

Maryna Medvedieva, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Marketing and Business Analytics

Nataliia Hoholieva, Donetsk National Technical University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Higher Mathematics and Physics

Olena Tomashevska, Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after Mykhailo Tuhan-Baranovskyi

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Digital Analytics and Control

Oleksandr Chernyshov, National Aviation University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Economics and Business Technologies

Yury Nesterov, Ukrainian-American Concordia University

Postgraduate Student

Department of Department of International Economic Relations And Business

Oleksandr Molodchenko, Donetsk National Technical University

Postgraduate Student

Department of Economics and  Management

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Assessment of relationships between smart technologies, corporate sustainability, and economic behavior of companies

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2023-04-29

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Popova, O., Chechel, A., Fomina, O., Myroshnychenko, G., Medvedieva, M., Hoholieva, N., Tomashevska, O., Chernyshov, O., Nesterov, Y., & Molodchenko, O. (2023). Assessment of relationships between smart technologies, corporate sustainability, and economic behavior of companies. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 2(13 (122), 41–51. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2023.275731

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Vol. 2 No. 13 (122) (2023): Transfer of technologies: industry, energy, nanotechnology

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Transfer of technologies: industry, energy, nanotechnology

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