Global e-government and the role of trust: A cross country analysis

International Journal of Electronic Government Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Das, Jayoti ^a   DiRienzo, Cassandra ^a   Burbridge Jr , John ^a  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; E government; Paralingual; Trust

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS;

CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS; E-GOVERNMENTS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PARALINGUAL; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; TRUST;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 74549181243     PISSN: 15483886     EISSN: 15483894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2009010101     Document Type: Article

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