New service development in e-government: Identifying critical success factors

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-118

  Angelopoulos, Spyros ^a   Kitsios, Fotis ^b   Papadopoulos, Thanos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Critical success factors; Government; Public sector organizations; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649312610     PISSN: 17506166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17506161011028821     Document Type: Article

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