Service delivery through mobile-government (mGov): Driving factors and cultural impacts

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 315-332

  Shareef, Mahmud Akhter ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^b   Dwivedi, Yogesh K ^c   Kumar, Uma ^b  

^a NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitude; Belief; Consumer behaviors; Cross culture; Hofstede s cultural traits; Intention; Mobile innovation; Mobile government (mGov)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ONTOLOGY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; ENABLING TOOLS; KEYPOINTS; PROCESS MODEL; REQUIREMENTS; RETRIEVAL TOOL; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84980317041     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: 15729419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-014-9533-2     Document Type: Article

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