Identifying critical factors for adoption of e-government

Electronic Government

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-96

  Shareef, Mahmud Akhter ^a   Kumar, Uma ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Dwivedi, Yogesh K ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Citizen; Critical factors; Developing countries; E government; EG

Indexed keywords

EID: 59249095928     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2009.022594     Document Type: Article

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