Bringing change in government organizations: Evolution toward post-bureaucracy with web-based it projects;Le changement dans les organisations gouvernementales: Une évolution vers la post-bureaucracie avec les technologies de l'information

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vaast, Emmanuelle ^a   Binz Scharf, Maria Christina ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Government; Institutions; Interpretive case studies; Path dependency; Postbureaucracy; Retention; Selection; Variation; Web based IT project

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; INTERPRETIVE CASE STUDIES; IT PROJECT; PATH-DEPENDENCY; POSTBUREAUCRACY; RETENTION; SELECTION; VARIATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84870974084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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