E-government evaluation: Towards a multidimensional framework

Electronic Government

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-363

  Chircu, Alina M ^a  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

E government; Financial value; Information technology evaluaion; Literature review; Multiple stakeholders; Multiple value dimensions; Political value; Public sector IT; Social value

Indexed keywords

EID: 48049121710     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2008.019521     Document Type: Article

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