E-government: from actors to interrelations Online publication date: Mon, 15-Nov-2010
by Georgia-Barbara Foteinou, Georgios Pavlidis
International Journal of Electronic Governance (IJEG), Vol. 3, No. 3, 2010
Abstract: E-government, as an interdisciplinary area of research, exhibits some special difficulties related to its sociotechnical character. This paper adopts a systems approach of e-government, to offer a unified framework of analysis. This approach offers a deeper understanding of e-government as an interactive, open multi-level, sociotechnical system, which is embedded to a hyper-system and entails many other subsystems that result to a high degree of complexity. At first, e-government is defined as a system whose constituent parts are entities and relationships. Then, some system characteristics are specified and its social and technological aspects are taken into account.
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