Performance monitoring and accountability through technology: e-Government in Greece

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Petrakaki, Dimitra I ^a   Hayes, Niall ^a   Introna, Lucas D ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Discretion; e government; Performance monitoring technology

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DISCRETION; E-GOVERNMENT; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; PERFORMANCE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY;

MONITORING;

EID: 51449121243     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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