e-government evaluation: Reflections on two organisational studies

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jones, Stephen ^a   Irani, Zahir ^b   Sharif, Amir ^b   Themistocleous, Marinos ^b  

^a Locum Occupational Therapist   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e Government Evaluation; Interpretive Case Studies; UK Public Sector

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; INTERPRETIVE CASE STUDIES; PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS; UK PUBLIC SECTOR;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROCESS CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33749609333     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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