Digital transformation and competition policy: analysing EU's regulatory response to emerging technologies
Digital transformation and competition policy: analysing EU's regulatory response to emerging technologies
Author(s): Alexandra Horobet, Cristiana-Ioana Coman, Lucian Belascu, Ioannis Kostakis, Eugenia BUSMACHIUSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Public Law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, EU-Legislation
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: digitalization; technology; innovation; EU; content analysis; legislation;
Summary/Abstract: This research explores the effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) competitionpolicies and regulatory framework in the era of swift technology development, focusingon the nexus between digitalization, competition, and competitiveness. A novel contentanalysis was completed using QDA Miner for 30 official EU legislative documents issuedbetween 1985 and 2024. The text was coded based on 10 major and 25 secondary themes.Key findings demonstrate that the most frequently used terms refer to market structure,business practices, and innovation, while the most frequent codes belong to theregulatory framework, competition policy, enforcement, and industrial strategycategories. The co-occurrence, link and proximity analyses show that digitaltransformation became one of the main concerns of EU in terms of regulations after 2010and, after the pandemic, it was accompanied by a sustained interest towards sustainabledevelopment after the pandemic, which align well with the twin transition – digital andenvironmental – in the EU.
Journal: Eastern Journal of European Studies
- Issue Year: 15/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 165-193
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English
