Exploring citizen perceptions of barriers to e-government adoption in a developing country

Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 131-150

  Alomari, Mohammad Kamel ^a   Sandhu, Kuldeep ^a   Woods, Peter ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Developing countries; E government; Jordan; Qualitative method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893491292     PISSN: 17506166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/TG-05-2013-0013     Document Type: Article

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