Development of e-commerce, transport and logistics in rural Russia: attitudes and obstacles

Abstract

The objective of the paper is to research the attitudes of local people of the countryside of one Karelian typical village towards the development of e-commerce and remote work. E-commerce and remote work are seem to be a solution for local people to find new jobs and earn more or some extra money. Moreover, abovementioned can be the way to find new markets for selling some good, products and even “not-importables”, which are seen to be the must to be created to revitalise the economic system of rural areas. Except the lack of knowledge on the the theme, the main obstacles for e-commerse are bad roads and bad Internet connections. The delivery and logistics system should be revised.

E-commerce in Russian rural areas as a tool for regional development

“…L. Philipa, F. Williams [17] assert that Internet connectivity does not promises rural community to use it for sale and entrepreneurial goals and one of the reasons is supposed to be the reluctance to raise digital literacy. This reason does not aligns with the findings of I. Aleksandrov and M. Fedorova [18,19] demonstrating strong will to familiarize with the tools of earning extra money or getting major income with the help of Internet. But we can explain it by differences of the qualities of life in the UK represented in the research of L. Philipa, F. Williams [17] and in Russian villages, represented in the researches of I. Aleksandrov and M. Fedorova [18,19].…”

“…This reason does not aligns with the findings of I. Aleksandrov and M. Fedorova [18,19] demonstrating strong will to familiarize with the tools of earning extra money or getting major income with the help of Internet. But we can explain it by differences of the qualities of life in the UK represented in the research of L. Philipa, F. Williams [17] and in Russian villages, represented in the researches of I. Aleksandrov and M. Fedorova [18,19].…”

“…As far as our previous researches of rural people attitudes to earn extra money or to have major income with the help of Internet [18,19], we can ascertain that for now the population is equipped by main appliances to run their own with the help of Internet. On the other hand, we also see lack if interest and motivation as a reason not to be connected to the Internet (Table 2), what also partly aligns with the finding of our previous researches [18,19]. That is why we suppose that rural people need more information about possibilities of selling goods and products via Internet, producing non-importables and selling them also via Internet.…”

Business analysis of factors and conditions for the development of sugar production organizations

“…For the correct performance of the reference comparison based on the values of the coupling coefficient, the following assumptions were used, which are acceptable for the modern development of sugar production technology in Russia on the example of a sugar plant with a production capacity of sugar beet processing 3000 t / day [9,10,11]: -loss of sugar beet during storage and delivery to production -4.6 %; -loss of sugar during storage -0.5 %;…”