Theoretical and practical implications from the use of structuration theory in public sector information systems research

ECIS 2014 Proceedings - 22nd European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Van Veenstra, Anne Fleur ^a   Melin, Ulf ^b   Axelsson, Karin ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digital government; Information systems; Public sector; Structuration theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PUBLIC RISKS;

CONTEXTUALIZATION; DIGITAL GOVERNMENT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IT DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION; STRUCTURATION THEORY; SYSTEMS RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905845217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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