INSTITUTIONAL AND INFRASTRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO DIGITALIZATION OF REGIONAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS: FROM HYPOTHESES TO MANAGEMENT TOOLS

The purpose of the study is to identify institutional and infrastructural barriers to the digitalization of regional business ecosystems based on an analysis of the constraints that arise in the process of forming the digital maturity of the subjects of the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the article consists of the tools of institutional economics, structural and functional analysis of interactions between management levels and logical and meaningf ul modeling of barrier states. Research result: a typology of barriers has been developed, differentiated by the level of origin and response from management, as well as the author’s scheme of interactions, which allows establishing causal relationships between regulatory weakness, technological limitations and management disintegration. Conclusions: (a) The sustainable spread of digital initiatives requires commensurate institutional mechanisms capable of compensating for regulatory inertia; b) the formalization of the response mechanism creates the conditions for the transition from fragmented solutions to managing digital maturity based on the real limitations of the environment.