Effects of Influence of Economic and Technological Development of IT Segment on Digital Transformation of Retail Trade

This paper presents the results of measuring intersectoral economic and technological effects, allowing to determine the degree of dependence between the segments that produce digital technologies and implement them. The basis for empirical calculations was the survey data of leaders among Russian IT companies and retail organizations on the current state of digital and business activity.

The purpose of the work is to identify the presence and establish the strength of the relationship between these segments in terms of existing localized industry effects, expressed in the transfer of technology from the IT segment to retail. The authors of the work identified and tested several specific hypotheses, the general meaning of which was to suggest that retail trade in the current stage of economic development in Russia is susceptible to emerging trends in the rapidly changing IT services sector that can quickly and efficiently respond to the growth of the IT companies digital activity by increasing investments in digital technologies and increasing the intensity of their application in business processes.

In particular, hypotheses were tested regarding the impact of business activity in the IT services segment on the growth of electronic commerce turnover, the use of online marketplaces, Big Data technologies, virtual and augmented reality technologies in retail trade organizations, as well as hypotheses suggesting a connection between the development of mobile applications in the IT segment and the use of mobile technologies, expectations regarding the growth of electronic goods turnover in retail organizations.

The obtained results confirmed the majority of the hypotheses put forward, thereby supporting the authors’ general assumption about the existence of specific effects of the development of the IT segment on intersectoral technological transfers, revealed the existing specifics of penetration and spread of modern technological trends in trade, and also showed that the IT is currently important component in the process of digital transformation of Russian retail trade organizations.

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