Power and organizational transformation through technology: Hybrids of electronic government

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 461-487

  Bloomfield, Brian P ^a,b   Hayes, Niall ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E government; Hybridization; Local government; Modernization; Organizational change; Power; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949083335     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609104394     Document Type: Article

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