Trustworthiness of digital government services: deriving a comprehensive theory through interpretive structural modelling

Public Management Review

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 647-671

  Janssen, Marijn ^a   Rana, Nripendra P ^b   Slade, Emma L ^b   Dwivedi, Yogesh K ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizens; digital government; electronic government; ISM; theory; trust; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016507425     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2017.1305689     Document Type: Article

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