Examining the relationships among e-government maturity, corruption, economic prosperity and environmental degradation: A cross-country analysis

Information and Management

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 638-649

  Krishnan, Satish ^a   Teo, Thompson S H ^a,b   Lim, Vivien K G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b School of Business   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Archival data; Corruption; E government maturity; Economic prosperity; Environmental degradation

Indexed keywords

CRIME; WEATHERING;

ARCHIVAL DATA; CORRUPTION; CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS; E-GOVERNMENT MATURITIES; E-GOVERNMENTS; ECONOMIC PROSPERITY; MEDIATING EFFECT;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84893640095     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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