Collaborative digital government in Mexico: Some lessons from federal Web-based interorganizational information integration initiatives

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 808-826

  Luna Reyes, Luis F ^a   Gil Garcia, J Ramon ^b   Cruz, Cinthia Betiny ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Digital government; E Government; Institutional arrangements; Interorganizational; Project evaluation; Technology enactment

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648996012     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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