IS Success and Failure—The Problem of Scale.
In the midst of Implementing Electronic Government (IEG), the almost knee-jerk reaction of our political elite seems to be to embrace hugely ambitious Information Systems (IS) solutions to public-sector operations. Problem after problem has been viewed as solvable by throwing some big IT at it. Howe...
| Publicado en: | Political Quarterly Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 439 - 447 |
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Jul-Sep2007
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