The concept of public value is becoming increasingly popular as the modern driver for the development of electronic government worldwide. As a result, adequately evaluating the public value of e-government becomes critical, exemplified by the development of several frameworks in this regard. These frameworks, however, suffer from various shortcomings for effectively evaluating the public value ...

As IT/IS application in governmental organizations gains more and more attention from both academics and practitioners in China, the diffusion of e-government systems has become one of the central research issues in this fast growing economy. In this paper, we follow a conceptual model consisting of two dimensions to evaluate the IT/IS application status of Chinese governments. With a field stu...

This paper examines the following question: How do government organizations become more “post-bureaucratic” with web-based IT projects? It draws on evolutionary thinking to conceptualize processes of change in government organizations as involving sequences of variation, selection, and retention as well as to identify various sources of change: internal ones (e.g. administrators), as well as ex...

According to the e-government maturity literature public organizations will move through different stages of maturity implying that the more mature e-Government the better. For many public organizations the next stage to enter is the stage of transformational e-Government (Dhillon, Weerakkody & Dwivedi, 2008). This paper contributes to this literature by reporting the findings from a case-study...

In this paper the relation between ICT-innovations and the culture of public administration is explored. Recent research shows that, regarding these kinds of innovations, there often is a one-sided focus on efficiency and customer orientation and a dominant belief in ICT as a neutral instrument in the hands of government. One of the consequences is an underestimation of the role of organization...

UNLABELLED Internally displaced persons are faced with several problems, such as sexual violence, and deserve appropriate intervention, especially in view of the increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS and other infections in Nigeria. This study attempts to assess interventions offered by governmental authorities and organizations to internally displaced persons and to identify gaps in services as we...

good governance is a term indicating the change of paradigm of state and government roles which prepares the way for equal participation for all citizens in decision making process, revealing this reality that governance belongs to public and is organized by them. on the other hand, e-government is a powerful instrument which causes the better public service, decrease of waste time, improvement...

this paper is trying to offer a better understanding of relationships between government and nongovernmental organizations in iran. although the constitutional law, development plans, development practitioners have paid more attention to the importance of ngos in the society, but still ngos are not functioning properly. the 1990s has been quite a decade for increasing the numbers of nongovernme...