Realising transformational stage e-government: A UK local authority perspective

Electronic Government

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 162-180

  Dhillon, Gurjit Singh ^a   Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a   Dwivedi, Yogesh Kumar ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizens; e government; Local authorities; Process reengineering; t government; Transformational Stage e Government

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149104083     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2008.016645     Document Type: Article

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