E-Government process and incentives for online public financial information

Online Information Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 379-400

  Pérez, Carmen Caba ^a   Bolívar, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez ^b   Hernández, Antonio M López ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Best practice; Democracy; Government; Incentives (psychology); Online operations; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; BENCHMARKING; FOOD PROCESSING; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INTERNET; LINEAR REGRESSION; MANAGEMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPARENCY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (R ,S ,S) POLICY; BENCHMARKING PROCESS; BEST PRACTICES (BP); DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; E DEMOCRACY; E GOVERNMENTS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXTERNAL FACTORS; FINANCIAL INFORMATION; GOVERNMENT WEB SITES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; KEY VARIABLES; MULTIVARIABLE LINEAR REGRESSION (MVR); PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; THREE DIMENSIONS;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 46249097147     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520810889682     Document Type: Article

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