Understanding electronic government research and smart city: A framework and empirical evidence

Information Polity

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 99-117

  Anthopoulos, Leonidas G ^a   Reddick, Christopher G ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Delphi; e government; information and communications technology (ICT); Smart city; urbanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959223915     PISSN: 15701255     EISSN: 18758754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IP-150371     Document Type: Article

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