Quantitative indicator weighting perspectives through prosperity in measuring index of business environment

Abstract

Modern businesses are globally adapted, and leading companies are those that spread their investment volumes and operating activities more accurate. How ever investment direction decisions are based on various factors, such as type of the business itself, distance to main markets, workforce availability, tax rates and etc. These factors in general could be defined as a set of social, economic, geographical and political factors. In ot her sense – business environments, competitiveness conditions or even ease of doing business. In order to control or interfere more closely with any phenomenon, at first one has to have an instrument and means to measure it. The article discusses different methods of competitiveness level assessment that are used in practice globally. Weak contents of practically all such methods appear to be the indicator weighting phase. Since all business environment assessment models use either equal weighting or qualitative weighting methods, naturally they are criticized widely. The purpose of this article is to analyze possible link between prosperity (quality of life) and ease of doing business, and on the base of this link propose an idea of weighting indicators of business environment by quantitative methods. Quantitative method of weight ing indicators is adaptable E-business environment asses sment as well.