whistleblowing by health professionals is an infrequent and extraordinary event and need not occur if internal voices are heard. mannion and davies’ editorial on “cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations” asks the question whether whistleblowing ameliorates or exacerbates the ‘deaf effect’ prevalent in healthcare organisations. this comme...

Public administrators face considerable challenges in their quest of reforming government. E-government initiatives are tiny steps taken in the above-mentioned direction. Various e-government initiatives have been categorically documented in the IS and NPM literature. However, a majority of these projects are either still underway or have failed due to the lack of a proper governance framework....

ــــ There are some great innovations in egovernment during the past decade, and there is intense competition between some governments and leaders in the supply of services on the internet. Some countries do not want to stay behind in this area, where many governments have developed detailed strategies to realize the e-government systems, but there is a problem facing these governments which la...

Effective e-government is becoming an important aim for many governments around the world. Within this context this paper aims to review and reorganize the previous work about e-government such as: e-government definition, types, advantages and barriers to e-government. It provides essential background knowledge to the research subject, as well as highlighting the main concepts of e-government.

In this chapter, the authors examine the criteria to use in assessing the success of e-government projects. Through an empirical enquiry based on case studies of e-government projects by Tunisian government agencies, they found that the interviewees distinguish between the project management success and the success of the deliverable. This empirical enquiry also revealed that the interviewees h...

Every government is seeking to provide the best services to its country to achieve efficiency and accepted performance. This goal could be achieved by improving the service performance of the entire sectors in society. Billions of dollars was invested by governments in order to undertake their first step towards implementing the e-Government project and specially implementing the best methodolo...

More and more governments around the world are introducing e-government as a means of reducing costs, improving services, saving time and increasing effectiveness and efficiency in the public sector Therefore e-government has been identified as one of the top priorities for Saudi government and all its agencies. However, the adoption of e-government is facing many challenges and barriers such a...

The Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) has implemented many statewide e-Government applications since the year 2000, when the Central Government of India enacted the IT Act of 2000 to provide legal recognition to electronic transactions. As a part of these initiatives, GoAP has set up an EProcurement Marketplace, linking government departments, agencies and local bodies with their vendors. The...

E-government is a new approach followed by nations in providing better services to people and businesses. It increases the efficiency of departments, reduces the cost, streamlines the processes and thus provides several benefits to all stakeholders involved. In this paper, we describe a case study on the successful implementation of e-government in Dubai using Chan, Lau, & Pan’s (2008) e-govern...