Assessing the Effect of e-Government Initiatives on Business Activities

Abstract

Quality public service delivery in today’s modern era of businesses springing up all around the globe is essential to business development and success. Governments are realizing the benefit of implementing e-Government initiatives in order to reduce administrative burden on corporations as well as SMEs and entrepreneurs. By providing e-registration, e-procurement and e-taxation portals for firms to carry out their various business processes. This study by adopting univariate simple correlation, granger-causality and Bayesian networks analyzes the top three and bottom three performing countries from the United Nations’ e-Government 2016 survey and their respective World Bank Doing Business 2016 indicators, i.e. Starting a Business and Paying Taxes, to assess the relationship. Thus proving that e-Government implementations are pertinent to successful business processes precisely starting a business and paying of taxes.