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The institutional and social network perspectives of government 2.0 adoption

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Djoko Sigit Sayogo,

J. Ignacio Criado,

Taewoo NamAuthors Info & Claims

ICEGOV '11: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Pages 281 - 284

https://doi.org/10.1145/2072069.2072118

Published: 26 September 2011 Publication History

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This paper aims to contribute to the discussion of the adoption of Government 2.0 innovation among government agencies through review of literature in institutional theory and social network perspective. Two arguments are proposed in this paper. First, the characteristics of innovation, innovators and network structure mediate the effect of institutional factors. The inherent characteristics of Web 2.0 intensify the pressure of institutional forces in the adoption of Government 2.0. Different adopters will experience different pressure of institutional forces, and therefore the order and the process in which they adopt. Second, the logic of efficiency and legitimacy complement each other in explaining the motivation for adopting and in Government 2.0 adoption, this complementary logic depends on the structural properties and network position.

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ICEGOV '11: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

September 2011

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DOI:10.1145/2072069

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Dwivedi YRana NTajvidi MLal BSahu GGupta A(2017)Exploring the Role of Social Media in e-GovernmentProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance10.1145/3047273.3047374(97-106)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3047273.3047374

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