Explaining history of eGovernment implementation in developing countries: An analytical framework

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6846 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 38-49

  Wahid, Fathul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

colonial systems; developing countries; e Government; General Systems Theory; Institutional Theory; mechanistic systems; organic systems

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL SYSTEMS; E-GOVERNMENT; GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; MECHANISTIC SYSTEMS; ORGANIC SYSTEMS; E-GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION; E-GOVERNMENTS; IMPLEMENTATION MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; SYSTEM THEORY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 80052763497     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22878-0_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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