A goal-driven management framework for electronic government transformation projects implementation

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-128

  Sarantis, Demetrios ^a   Charalabidis, Yannis ^a   Askounis, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

E Government; E Government Policy; Information Systems; Management; Public Administration; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649880439     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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