Analyzing the Framework Conditions for Digital Entrepreneurship. An Empirical Evaluation of Country Performance

Finding a way to integrate and exploit digital technologies in businesses is one of the market challenges, that requires a framework for digital entrepreneurship. Consequently, the goal of this research is to identify the framework conditions for digital entrepreneurship, by performing a Data Envelopment Analysis on a sample of 46 world countries. The results of the empirical endeavor highlight that 25 countries from the sample are considered relatively efficient based on their output maximization of specific levels of national inputs. The efficient decision-making units can serve as a peer or optimal benchmark for the inefficient ones. Taking into account their input–output performance, the USA, Guatemala, and Morocco are the most important peers. Oppositely, the most inefficient countries from the sample are Togo, Lithuania, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates. Summarizing the findings, the most efficient countries are the ones included in the lower-middle-income group. Based on the theoretical and empirical investigation, it should be stated the significance of the national context, where the level of income was not strongly related to the results in developing digital entrepreneurship.