A comparison of Asian e-government websites quality: Using a non-parametric test

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-246

  Dominic, P D D ^a   Jati, Handaru ^a   Sellappan, P ^b   Nee, Goh Kim ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b MALAYSIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

E government; Hybrid model; Performance; Quality; Web diagnostic

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951610639     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2011.038513     Document Type: Article

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