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IT Governance: The Key Factor of E-Government Implementation in China

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According to E-government maturity model, Leavitt’s Diamond model, Fountain’s technology enactment framework and IT governance theory, this paper discusses the important impact that IT governance bring in the effectiveness of e-government implementation. Furthermore, the critical influence factors model of e-government implementation effectiveness is proposed. Data are collected from a survey and analyzed by following a psychometric procedure. All data from government official of China’s public sector across 29 provinces. The research result shows that the E-government governance capability is positively related with e-government implementation effectiveness, Moreover, the environmental readiness and organizational support are also positively related with e-government implementation effectiveness.

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  1. School of Information, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, P.R. China

    Tianmei Wang & Baowen Sun

  2. School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, P.R. China

    Zhijun Yan

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  2. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

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  3. HKSAR, City University of Hong Kong, China

    Wei T. Yue

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Wang, T., Sun, B., Yan, Z. (2012). IT Governance: The Key Factor of E-Government Implementation in China. In: Shaw, M.J., Zhang, D., Yue, W.T. (eds) E-Life: Web-Enabled Convergence of Commerce, Work, and Social Life. WEB 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29873-8_26

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