Citizens’ adoption of an electronic government system: towards a unified view

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 549-568

  Rana, Nripendra P ^a   Dwivedi, Yogesh K ^a   Lal, Banita ^b   Williams, Michael D ^a   Clement, Marc ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Citizen; e District; Electronic government; India; Unified model

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

ADOPTION; CITIZEN; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; INDIA; UNIFIED MODELING;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 85022325680     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: 15729419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-015-9613-y     Document Type: Article

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