E-government: from actors to interrelations. (16th November 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Foteinou, Georgia-Barbara; Pavlidis, Georgios
• Is Part Of: International journal of electronic governance. Volume 3:Number 3(2010)
• Page Start: 319
• Page End: 331
• Publication Date: 2010-11-16
• Subjects: systems approaches -- e-government actors -- electronic government -- sociotechnical systems -- set theory -- entity-relationship models -- interrelations -- interactive systems -- multi-level systems -- hyper-systems -- subsystems -- complexity -- entities -- relationships -- social aspects -- technological aspects -- electronic governance -- e-governance; Internet in public administration -- Periodicals; Electronic government information -- Periodicals; Political participation -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; 352.3802854678
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-7509

Abstract

E-government, as an interdisciplinary area of research, exhibits some special difficulties related to its sociotechnical character. This paper adopts a systems approach of e-government, to offer a unified framework of analysis. This approach offers a deeper understanding of e-government as an interactive, open multi-level, sociotechnical system, which is embedded to a hyper-system and entails many other subsystems that result to a high degree of complexity. At first, e-government is defined as a system whose constituent parts are entities and relationships. Then, some system characteristics are specified and its social and technological aspects are taken into account.