Examining the motivations for e-government from an institutional theory perspective

摘要

The objective of this study is to understand why e-government projects are initiated at the first place. I define an e-government project as an effort by a government agency by itself or by partnership with other government agencies, private firms and/or civil societal organizations to use information and communication technologies (hereafter ICTs; they are technologies that capture, transmit and display data and information electronically) to provide government information or services to citizens, businesses, other government agencies or civil societal organizations.