Understanding e-Government project trajectories from an actor-network perspective

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-177

  Heeks, Richard ^a   Stanforth, Carolyne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; e Government; IS failure; IS success; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247605424     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000676     Document Type: Article

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