Title: What facilitates e-government development? A cross-country analysis

Authors: Shirish C. Srivastava, Thompson S.H. Teo

Addresses: Department of Decision Sciences, School of Business, National University of Singapore, 1 Business Link, 117592, Singapore. ' Department of Decision Sciences, School of Business, National University of Singapore, 1 Business Link, 117592, Singapore

Abstract: There are relatively few empirical studies that analyse e-government development from a global perspective. Using secondary data from 115 countries and the Technology–Organisation–Environment (TOE) as the guiding theoretical lens, we examine the facilitators for e-government development. Our research highlights the importance of national technological and organisational (human capital) contexts for e-government development. Our results also show that national environment (institutional and macroeconomic) is not a significant facilitator for e-government development. Further, post hoc analysis reveals the anomalous significant relationship of public institutions with e-government development in the negative direction. Through this research, we make some important contributions that have implications for researchers, practitioners and policymakers.

Keywords: e-government facilitators; electronic government; human capital; technology–organisation–environment; TOE; technology; organisation; environment; secondary data; e-government development; partial least squares; PLS.

DOI: 10.1504/EG.2007.015034

Electronic Government, an International Journal, 2007 Vol.4 No.4, pp.365 - 378

Published online: 05 Sep 2007 *

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