Information quality as capstone in negotiating e-government integration, interoperation and information sharing

Electronic Government

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-225

  Klischewski, Ralf ^a   Scholl, Hans Jochen ^b  

^a Main Entrance Al Tagamoa Al Khames   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross agency interoperation; e government; Emergent IQ; Information architecture; Information Quality; Information sharing; IQ; Negotiated IQ; Organisational arrangements; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149137272     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2008.016647     Document Type: Article

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