Digital or Electronic Government Research (EGR) finds itself at a crossroads. While the body of electronic-Government-related knowledge is rapidly growing, questions have been raised about whether EGR qualifies as a legitimate discipline, and what the accepted methods and procedures of inquiry should be. This chapter proposes that EGR will be fortunate not to develop into a traditional discipline and not to restrict itself to a narrow set of procedures. Rather, EGR should keep drawing upon multiple disciplines spanning the whole spectrum of hard-pure, hard-applied, soft-pure, and soft-applied sciences. In so doing, EGR might best thrive as a multi-, inter-, or transdiscipline with the prospect of becoming an academic role model for integrative knowing capable of coping with the complexity of problems and phenomena without unduly simplifying them.
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- Interdisciplinary Research
- Information System Research
- Transdisciplinary Research
- Identity Crisis
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Scholl, H.J.(. (2008). Discipline or Interdisciplinary Study Domain? Challenges and Promises in Electronic Government Research. In: Chen, H., et al. Digital Government. Integrated Series In Information Systems, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71611-4_2
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