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The E-Government Melting Pot: Lacking New Public Management and Innovation Flavor?

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Electronic Government (EGOV 2006)

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The paper argues that e-government literature has by large not infused New Public Management (NPM) literature or innovation studies on e-government. Rather, e-government literature has used relative simple frameworks and observations from the NPM and innovation studies and applied them in studies of e-government implementation. Based on a literature review of 60 peer and double blind reviewed scientific studies, this paper argues that the domain has only been subject to research for about half a decade and that the domain is still unexplored in many aspects. One major absence is a lack of cross referencing of studies and limited number of cumulative studies on whether e-government can aid NPM or fuel innovation. However, the good news is that the literature review demonstrates that researchers entering the domain mainly base their research on empirical studies.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Agder University College, Service box 422, 4604, Kristiansand, Norway

    Møyfrid Kårstad Sannarnes

  2. Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Howitzvej 60, 2000, Fredriksberg, Denmark

    Helle Zinner Henriksen & Kim Viborg Andersen

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  1. Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

  2. The Information School, University of Washington, 98195-2840, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hans J. Scholl

  3. ESI/Informatics, Örebro University, 701 82, Örebro, Sweden

    Åke Grönlund

  4. Copenhagen Business School, Centre for Applied ICT, 60 Howitzvej, 2000, Frederiksberg, DK

    Kim Viborg Andersen

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Sannarnes, M.K., Henriksen, H.Z., Andersen, K.V. (2006). The E-Government Melting Pot: Lacking New Public Management and Innovation Flavor?. In: Wimmer, M.A., Scholl, H.J., Grönlund, Å., Andersen, K.V. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4084. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11823100_3

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