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An Evaluation of Whether the Psychological Traits of Managers Are Relevant to Their Intentions to Purchase E-government Software

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Managers have played a double identity of electronic government (e-government) software implementation within their organizations. On the one hand, they are potential sponsors of the software applications. On the other, they are also explicit users. However, past e-government software and information systems studies have overlooked this unique nature. While individual innovativeness has been asserted to be significantly related to innovation adoption behavior, an increasing number of studies have evidenced that innovativeness alone does not command innovation adoption behavior. In such cases, individual involvement may play a ruling effect on innovative behaviors. Therefore, this study empirically tested a model that was developed to assess whether the factors affecting the manager’s decision for using or purchasing e-government software may be diverse. The experiment involved 56 managers from different functional departments in governments, and the present study proposes managerial implications according to the results.

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, National Chiayi University, 580 Sinmin Rd., Chiayi, 60054, Taiwan

    Hersen Doong

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  1. Center for Applied ICT (CAICT) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Howitzvej 60, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Kim Normann Andersen

  2. Institute of Legal Information, Theory and Techniques, ITTIG-CNR, Italian National Reserach Council, Via de’ Barucci 20, 50127, Florence, Italy

    Enrico Francesconi

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

    Åke Grönlund

  4. Faculty of Law, Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1000BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Tom M. van Engers

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Doong, H. (2011). An Evaluation of Whether the Psychological Traits of Managers Are Relevant to Their Intentions to Purchase E-government Software. In: Andersen, K.N., Francesconi, E., Grönlund, Å., van Engers, T.M. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22961-9_31

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