Information systems in the public sector: The e-Government enactment framework

By Antonio Cordella, Federico Iannacci. Journal of strategic information systems, 2010

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Despite the burgeoning number of studies of public sector information systems, very few scholars have focussed on the relationship between e-Government policies and information systems choice and design. Drawing on Fountain's (2001) technology enactment framework, this paper endeavours to conduct an in-depth investigation of the intricacies characterising the choice and design of new technologies in the context of e-Government reforms. By claiming that technologies are carriers of e-Government reform aims, this study investigates the logics embedded in the design of new technology and extant political interests and values inscribed in e-Government policies. The e-Government enactment framework is proposed as a theoretical and analytical approach to understand and study the complexity of these relationships which shape e-Government policies.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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What makes a city smart? Identifying core components and proposing an integrative and comprehensive conceptualization (2015, unknown): “Several recent studies argue that institutional arrangements are important in government settings when selecting, adopting, designing, implementing, and using information technologies [40,66,78,88,129,130].”
E-government and organizational change: Reappraising the role of ICT and bureaucracy in public service delivery (2015, background): “…are deployed to pursue a cluster of ideas and practices that prescribe using private sector and business approaches in the public sector (Cordella & Bonina, 2012; Cordella & Iannacci, 2010; Hood, 1991) to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness and hence reduce bureaucratic burden.”
A public value perspective for ICT enabled public sector reforms: A theoretical reflection (2012, background): “This approach neglects to consider the political impacts associatedwith changes in public sector organizational practices (Cordella & Iannacci, 2010; Cordella & Willcocks, 2010) and the importance of looking at ICT as a mediator in public administration transformation (Persson & Goldkuhl, 2010).”
Suggesting frameworks of citizen-sourcing via Government 2.0 (2012, background): “The design of e-government reflects certain organizational forms and certain institutional arrangements (Cordella & Iannacci, 2010; Gil-Garcia, 2006; Luna-Reyes & Gil-Garcia, 2011).”