This book gathers the best contributions from the conference Digital Transformation of the
Economy: Challenges Trends and New Opportunities which took place in Samara Russian
Federation on May 29-31 2018. Organized by Samara State University of Economics (Samara)
Russia the conference was devoted to issues of the digital economy.Presenting international
research on the impact of digitalization on economic development it includes topics such as
the transformation of the institutional environment under the influence of informatization the
comparative analysis of the digitalization development in different countries and modeling the
dependence of the rate of change in the economy on the level of the digitalization penetration
into various spheres of human activity. It also covers business-process transformation in the
context of digitalization and changes in the structure of employment and personnel training for
the digital economy. Lastly it addresses the issue of ensuring information security and
dealing with information risks for both individual enterprises and national economies as a
whole. The book appeals to both students and researchers whose interests include the
development of the digital economy as well as to managers and professionals who integrate
digital solutions into real-world business practice.
