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What Affects The Choice For Digitalization of Business Records? Evidence From Micro and Small Enterprises
What Affects The Choice For Digitalization of Business Records? Evidence From Micro and Small Enterprises
What Affects The Choice For Digitalization of Business Records? Evidence From Micro and Small Enterprises
Abstract
Introduction
Annual Report 2019-20, India has 633.88 lakhs MSMEs, among which 630.52
lakhs operate as micro, 3.31 lakhs as small, and 0.05 lakhs as medium
enterprises creating 11.10 crore jobs and contributing 37.54%. to GDP
(Ministry of MSME, 2020). It is already overdue for MSMEs to cope with the
updated technology and leverage the benefits to explore the market and
venture out their business in new domains (Arora and Rathi, 2019).
Visualizing such market needs, a number of digital recording systems have
etc., for
small and medium-size business. But, despite many advantages of
digitalization, MSMEs in India are reluctant to adopt digitalization. The major
challenges that hinder the adoption of digitalization are: initial investment in
fixed cost, limited expertise & knowledge, lack of awareness, habituation with
traditional systems and resistance to new learning. In this context, research
concerning the choice of digitalization of business records by MSMEs is the
need of the hour.
In an attempt to undertake research in the much-needed area, our study
focuses on Micro and Small enterprises operating in Jagatsinghpur
municipality area. Jagatsinghpur, an emerging town in Odisha, has many new
Micro and Small Enterprises and has a lot of scope for the micro and small
business enterprises to come up in the coming days. Further, Jagatsinghpur
has a lot of economic importance because of its strategic location. It connects
to most of the coastal districts of Odisha, such as Cuttack, Kendrapara, Puri,
and Paradeep port situated with very close proximity to it. Hence, conducting
research in an emerging area with new enterprises is presumed to give some
new insights which may be helpful for the stakeholders.
In the above background, the present paper has made a novel attempt to
assess the factors that influence the choice for digitalization of business
records by micro and small enterprises in Jagatsinghpur municipality of
Odisha. The study adds to the prevailing literature in many ways. Firstly, it
adds to the dearth of literature on the digitalization of business records, and as
far as our knowledge is concerned, it is the first empirical work on choice for
digitalization of business records among micro and small entrepreneurs in the
Indian context. Secondly, the study also recommended valuable suggestions
for the effective adoption of digitalization of business records to the policy
builder.
The subsequent section of this paper deals with the literature review
followed by research methodology, empirical results & findings, and
conclusion.
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Literature Review
Methodology
Data: The data has been collected from both primary and secondary sources.
Primary sources are used to collect the information from the respondent
through the questionnaire method. Secondary sources, i.e., the internet,
periodicals, magazines, newspapers, and articles, are used to study existing
literature.
Sample: There are around 200 micro and small enterprises (MSEs) at
Jagatsinghpur municipality, out of which only 70 MSEs were responded. The
random sampling method is used to collect the data from the sample
respondents. Out of the 70 responses received from the sample respondents,
only 51 were valid and considered for hypothesis testing.
Diagnostic Tests
Reliability
The Cronbach s Alpha has been considered for testing the reliability of the
data. According to Kumarasinghe and Haleem (2020), if the value of
Cronbach s Alpha is above 0.90, it shows excellent reliability, a value between
0.70 to 0.90 shows high reliability, a value between 0.50 to 0.70 conveys
moderate reliability, and a value of 0.5 and below shows low reliability. By
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using SPSS 20 the value of Cronbach s Alpha of our study is more than 0.70
(i.e., 0.81), which is highly reliable.
Validity
The validity of the data has been tested by obtaining the correlation coefficient
value of total items with all items. It is considered to be valid if the value is
more than 0.05 (Herliansyah et al., 2020). The value of the correlation
coefficient of the total item is more than 0.05, indicating that the data are valid.
Normality
To test the normalcy of the data, we have used Sapiro-Wilk test in which
the null hypothesis is that data are normally distributed. We found the
significant value is more than 0.05 (i.e., 0.089), which supports the null
hypothesis, and hence data are considered as normal.
Hypotheses
Model Specification
A binary logistic regression analysis has been applied given that the dependent
variable, the choice for digitalization of business records (CDBR), is binary
the adoption of digitalization for business records and
-adoption. The relationship between the independent and the
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where,
Model I
Model II
Variables Description
Dependent variable
Choice for digitalization of business is adopted for business records
records
Independent variables
Record-keeper
maintained by a specialised person
Average turnover Continuous
Level of investment Categorical
Up to 5Lakh Binary
Above 5lakh to 10 lakh Binary
Above 10lakh-25lakh Binary
Above 25lakh Binary
Education Level Categorical
Under Metric Binary
Metric Binary
Intermediate Binary
Graduation Binary
Post-Graduation Binary
Professional Binary
Gender
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Correlation Matrix
Table 2 highlights the correlation coefficient for the variables under study. The
correlation coefficient among the variables ranges from 0.003 to 0.782. The
correlation between the independent variables is less than the threshold limit
of 0.80, indicating the absence of collinearity as suggested by (Gujarati, 2004).
But there are significant correlations between the independent variables, so to
reduce biasness we treat all the independent variables separately by
developing three separate logistic regression models.
Regression Results
Table 3 highlights the regression results of the three separate models, i.e., the
influence of record keeper, turnover of the business, and amount of investment
on choice for digitalization of business records. We have employed Hosmer
and Lemeshow s (HL) Goodness of fit test to determine the feasibility of the
logistic regression model. Table 3 above shows that all the significance value
of the HL test is more than 0.05, which signifies the models are efficient to
analyze. The value of Nagelkerke R Squared highlights the coefficient of
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determination in the model. Nagelkerke R Squared values for the three models
are 0.783, 0.527 & 0.574, which means that the independent variables can
explain the variability of the choice of digitalization of business records at
78%, 52% & 57%, respectively.
**
Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
The below results show that record keepers relate negatively and
significantly with the digitalization of business records. In the analysis, we
the business record is maintained by self
the specialized person maintains it. So, the result advocates that self-
recording discourages digitalization while businesses maintaining records by
specialized people prefers digitalization. The odds ratio of 0.027 shows that
the entrepreneur who maintains record by self has 2% chance of recording the
business transactions in digital mode than those enterprises don t record. At
the same time, the average turnover positively influences the adoption of
digitalization for business records. These findings are more realistic. As
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Note: ***, ** and * indicate significant level at 1%, 5% and 10% respectively.
Conclusion
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