The challenges of challenge.gov: Adopting private sector business innovations in the federal government

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2073-2082

  Mergel, Ines ^a   Bretschneider, Stuart I ^a   Louis, Claudia ^a   Smith, Jason ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS INNOVATION; FEDERAL DEPARTMENT; FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS; GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION; U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 84902289398     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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