Facilitators for e-Government Development: An Application of the Technology-Organization-Environment Framework

摘要

There are relatively few empirical studies that analyze e-Government development from a global perspective. Using secondary data from 115 countries and the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) as the guiding theoretical lens, we examine the facilitators for e-Government development. Our research highlights the importance of national technological and organizational (human capital) contexts for e-Government development. Our results also show that national environment (institutional and macro-economic) 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 and implications for researchers, practitioners and policy makers.