e-government: A comparison of strategies in local authorities in the UK and Norway

Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a   Jones, Steve ^b   Olsen, Elisabeth ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Locum Occupational Therapist   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; E-GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTATION; E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; KEY COMPONENT; LOCAL AUTHORITIES; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ISSUES; STRATEGIC PLAN;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84857531977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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