Unevenness of Digitalization as a Macroeconomical Source of Imbalanсe in a Business Environment

Abstract

This article is devoted to the current problems related to the unevenness of digitalization process in economical branches in Russia, that means investment attractiveness imbalance in corresponding economical branches. The uneven involvement of economical sectors in the digitalization process entails far-reaching negative macroeconomic consequences, both for the economy as a whole and for the assessment of “non-digital economic” specifically. The article affects the analysis of investments value depending of current digitalization state of some economical branches, and grounded an existence of digital inequality in macroeconomic. The purpose of this study is to identify the negative consequences of the imbalance in the investment attractiveness of economic sectors, which manifests itself in excessive financing of the most digitalized sectors of the national economy to the detriment of the “real” sector of the economy. The objectives of this study include comparison and analysis of macroeconomic indicators of the sectors of the economy of the Russian Federation, substantiation based on the analysis of the existing industry “digital inequality”, as well as identification of its negative consequences. The achievement of the tasks set was carried out with the help of general analytical methods, as well as quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. The paper substantiates the imbalance of investments, their economic results and financing needs depending on the degree of digitalization of individual economic sectors by the calculation method, substantiates the intersectoral “digital inequality”, expressed in the unequal access of organizations of a particular economic sector to economic resources of all types, and also identifies negative consequences the aforementioned phenomenon.