Resumo

The environment has a critical role in development of business and innovation. Information Technologies (IT) are one kind of technologies that need a good business and innovation environment. Organizations can prepare a complete cycle of management to implement new technologies by contracting experienced IT managers (Armstron & Sambamurthy, 1996; Weill & Olson, 1989), CIOs (Armstron & Sambamurthy, 1996) or skilled IT team (Somers & Nelson, 2001).

Even the organizations with higher levels of internal structuration suffer with external factors. Shin and Edington (2007) proposes a framework when statal changes in laws and normative interferes directly in IT projects. These uncertainties yet could be generated protectionists mechanism imposed by governmental agencies. Alreemy, Chang, Walters and Wills (2016) complement arguing that better regulatory environments promote superior positions in competition worldwide. In such manner, we aim to analyze worldwide CCPP and its relations with economic freedom.

The [North American] National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Report (Mell & Grance, 2011) proposes a classification involving characteristics, models and services of CC. According to Pinheiro Junior (2017), this classification is widely used in worldwide studies. Jaeger, Lin and Grimes (2008) were the first to think in CCPP Irion (2011) comments that initial discussions are above the risk of appliance this new technology. Jaeger et al. (2008) mentioned possibilities of gap. Leading us to conclude that the free market could provide a faster solution than PP.

We analyze all yearly BSA publicized reports (2012, 2013, 2016 and 2018). To analyze economic freedom, we used the research developed for The Heritage Foundation, the Index of Economic Freedom. We match the same countries that were studied in both indicators to made our analysis. As statistics techniques, we test different clusters algorithms to find what better fits with data and applied anova to conduct this analyze and present F statistics to base the choice of clusters number and to test proposed hypothesis. We use SEM package in Stata (Acock, 2013) to test a complementary model.

We observed two main results of cluster analysis: partitional methods indicates 3 clusters (k = 3) and hierarchical methods indicates 4 clusters (k = 4). We assume that are strong evidences to support the hypothesis studied, to the confirmation that the countries with highest levels of economic freedom are yet those of higher readiness to implement ITPP, especially in our study, the CCPP. Summarily, the main discussions are around the three safety aspects: data privacy, prevention to cybercrime and security. Kushida et al. (2011) mentioned that these aspects are the most volatile worldwide.

We found that the countries with higher levels of economic freedom are the better evaluated as ready to implement CCPP. We based our findings on merging the surveys published by Business Software Alliance and The Heritage Foundation. We conclude that excessive intervention of governmental agencies and statal and judicial instabilities promotes retardment in technological development and isolation of the international market, especially in cloud computing environment – analyzed in present paper.

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