Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2020

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of a global E-government reform network on an individual country's E-government performance. As keeping pace with changing environments becomes one of the essential tasks for governments to retain problem-solving capacity, scholars have paid a lot of attention to the determinants of public sector innovation. However, how the ideas of reform and innovation have been communicated at the international or intergovernmental level has been paid less attention. To fill the gap in the literature, we have constructed a social network dataset covering 179 countries for the period 2010 to 2013. This dataset records whether countries sent government officials to E-government related workshops and conferences hosted by the UN and the OECD. The results show that the embeddedness within the transnational network facilitates the pursuit of E-government innovation. We also find that the well-established bureaucratic institution and competitive IT industry contribute to the E-government performance.

Keywords

Bureaucratic institutions, Changing environment, Digital government, Government officials, Government performance, Government reforms, Public sector, Transnational networks

Discipline

Political Science | Public Administration | Technology and Innovation

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

dg.o '20: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Seoul, June 15-19

First Page

122

Last Page

129

ISBN

9781450387910

Identifier

10.1145/3396956.3396961

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3396956.3396961

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