Issues and strategies for conducting cross-national e-Government comparative research

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-170

  Gharawi, Mohammed A ^a   Pardo, Theresa A ^a   Guerrero, Santiago ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative e Government research; Cross national comparison; International research; Managing comparative research; Methodological problems

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE RESEARCH; CROSS-NATIONAL; E-GOVERNMENT RESEARCH; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77949287786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1693042.1693076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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