There are relatively few empirical studies that analyze e-Government development from a global perspective. Using secondary data from 115 countries and the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) as the guiding theoretical lens, we examine the facilitators for e-Government development. Our research highlights the importance of national technological and organizational (human capital) contexts...

This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the importance of metropolitan area government structure on socioeconomic inequality in approximately 70 metropolitan areas in the United States. This study particularly focuses on meaningful classification of metropolitan areas according to their government structure and its possible relationship to measures of inequality, such as the Gini coeffici...

One of the measures taken by the 1979 Revolutionary Government of Iran was to denounce the mixed public-private ownership of the banking system of the pre-revolutionary era and implement a full scale banking nationalization and merging scheme. Since then the banking system has been operating under close supervision and scrutiny of the government - exercising its power to impose a variety of res...

All around the world, governments are eagerly looking toward a digital future, but their view is obstructed by the challenges they face in the modernizing such vast enterprises. This study concentrates on a Government-to-Business (G2B) relationship in which the development and implementation processes of a government-based e-procurement system are explored. This study does not represent the ove...

Utilizing the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) theory and the literature on citizen engagement (or participation), we formulated a multiple-mediation model, examining (1) the contextual antecedents of e-participation and e-government development; and (2) the mediating role of e-participation (in form of e-information sharing, e-consultation, and e-decision-making) on the relationships ...