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Acceptance of Common Service Centers versus Self-service e-Government Portal: An Uncertainty Reduction Perspective

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Developments in the information and communication technologies (ICT) in the past two decades have enabled organizations to deliver services with greater transparency and lower cost.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Authors collected data from Tamil Nadu e-governance agency.

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    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/tn-second-in-rural-smartphone-use/articleshow/67291628.cms.

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    As of 18th Apr 2020., according to the official website of TNeGA.

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    Sujeet Kumar Sharma & Jang Bahadur Singh

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Sharma, S.K., Singh, J.B. (2022). Acceptance of Common Service Centers versus Self-service e-Government Portal: An Uncertainty Reduction Perspective. In: Papagiannidis, S., Alamanos, E., Gupta, S., Dwivedi, Y.K., Mäntymäki, M., Pappas, I.O. (eds) The Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping the Post-Pandemic World. I3E 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13454. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15342-6_24

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