Evaluating citizen adoption and satisfaction of e-government

International Journal of Electronic Government Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 57-78

  Orgeron, Craig P ^a   Goodman, Doug ^b  

^a Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen adoption; E government; SERVQUAL; Technology acceptance model; Web trust model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054851879     PISSN: 15483886     EISSN: 15483894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jegr.2011070104     Document Type: Article

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