Toward a contingency view of infrastructure and knowledge: an exploratory study
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment
Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment
Information Ecology Of E-government: E-government As Institutional And Technological Innovation in Public Administration (Informatization Developments and the Public Sector)
eGov and SDI: the common grounds and missing links
dg.o '07 Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Digital government research: bridging disciplines & domains
Intermediaries orchestrating public service networks
dg.o '07 Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Digital government research: bridging disciplines & domains
Assessing the intangible value of g2g endeavours
EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
Organizational transformation through e-government: myth or reality?
EGOV'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Electronic Government
Assessing the role of GIS in e-government: a tale of e-participation in two cities
EGOV'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic Government
E-government and geographical information based collaboration patterns
EGOVIS'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Electronic government and the information systems perspective
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Government-to-government (G2G) integration requires cooperation between public agencies and different levels of Information and communication technology (ICT) interoperability. Often the technical levels of interoperability are considered value-neutral to the inter-organizational cooperation, but organizational political theory would suggest that once ICT becomes a major resource it will bring about power struggles. As a result, it will affect the behavior of the individual partners in the cooperation underlying G2G's. This organizational political nature was analyzed in three cases of G2Gs in the Netherlands, using a qualitative approach and a set of analytical concepts. All of these cases are from the geoICT domain, a subset of ICT, dealing specifically with handling and integrating geospatial data and related technologies. The role of ICT in G2G cooperation is compared through its relation to formal arrangements, perceived interests, command and control, coordination and change management. The degree of institutionalization of ICT usage and practices appears relevant for the G2G cases. This can be explained by the strategic behavior of organizations with regards to the image that the use of ICT creates for the environment on which they depend. There is evidence for the assumption that the role of ICT in G2G is political in nature, aiming to reinforce existing power balances. Further research on G2Gs needs to explicitly address how this political character affects of these balances.