Automating the public sector and organizing accountabilities

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Smith, Matthew L ^a   Noorman, Merel E ^b   Martin, Aaron K ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Council for Social Development ^*  (Netherlands)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Automation; Decision making; Dysfunction; E government; Information and communication technologies (ICTs); Open source; Public sector

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING;

ACCOUNTABILITY; DYSFUNCTION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; OPEN SOURCES; PUBLIC SECTOR;

E-GOVERNMENT;

EID: 77953058395     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02601     Document Type: Article

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