Bridging From e-Government Practice to e-Government Research: Past Trends and Future Directions

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Author(s): Kyu-Nahm Jun (Wayne State University, USA)and Christopher Weare (University of Southern California, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 27
Source title: Handbook of Research on E-Government in Emerging Economies: Adoption, E-Participation, and Legal Frameworks
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kelvin Joseph Bwalya (University of Botswana, Botswana)and Saul F.C. Zulu (University of Botswana, Botswana)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0324-0.ch013

Keywords: Electronic Government / Government & Law / Information Science Reference

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This chapter examines the state of the field of e-Government research to assess strategically how scholars may best target future research initiatives. While e-Government research is characterized by a great deal of interaction between practitioners and academic researchers, most research continues to either lack sufficient rigor to produce generalizable results or in search of rigor becomes too abstract to be directly useful to guide practice. Thus, despite the explosive growth in the field, there remain numerous opportunities to develop research projects that can both interest and aid practitioners and generate new theoretical and empirical knowledge. Through two reviews—one of the specialized e-Government literature and the other of general public administration and political science journals—this conceptual chapter identifies a number of research areas in which e-Government scholars and practitioners in the emerging economies may target their efforts.

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