E-Government Adoption Model (GAM): Differing service maturity levels

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-35

  Shareef, Mahmud Akhter ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^b   Kumar, Uma ^b   Dwivedi, Yogesh K ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Citizens; E Government (e Gov); Information and communication technology (ICT); Service maturity levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649830464     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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