Exploring the success factors of state website functionality: an empirical investigation
dg.o '05 Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research
Organizational size and IT innovation adoption: A meta-analysis
Information and Management
A taxonomy for public safety networks
dg.o '07 Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Digital government research: bridging disciplines & domains
Explaining Internet service quality in social security agencies using institutional theory
Information Polity - The development of e-government in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
Information Polity - Government Information Sharing and Integration: Combining the Social and the Technical. Papers from the 9th International Conference on Digital Government Research (d.g.o.2008)
Government information sharing and integration: Combining the social and the technical
Information Polity - Government Information Sharing and Integration: Combining the Social and the Technical. Papers from the 9th International Conference on Digital Government Research (d.g.o.2008)
Design observations regarding public safety networks
Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference: Digital Government Innovation in Challenging Times
Architectural patterns of U.S. public safety networks: a fuzzy set qualitative comparison analysis
Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
U.S. public safety networks: Architectural patterns and performance
Information Polity - Key Factors and Processes for Digital Government Success
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In recent years, public safety agencies at various levels of government have joined together to share information and communicate when faced with public safety incidents. Interagency collaboration initiatives of this nature result in the creation of Public Safety Networks (PSNs). PSNs may originate at any level of government, and their user base may span a single or multiple geographies. In this study, we focus on PSNs that are created to be used in the United States at the state-level; that is, they aim to support some combination of police and other agencies throughout one of the fifty U.S. states. The study seeks to describe the size and maturity of extant state-level PSNs, based upon factors derived from rational choice and institutional theories. For each state, we have collected contextual data representing 135 different characteristics and descriptors of potentially relevant state-level attributes. We produce a parsimonious set of factors that predict public safety collaboration, identify which factors cluster together, and confirm that they evidence an underlying structure consistent with what rational choice and institutional theories would predict. These are then analyzed against size and maturity indicators drawn from an extensive data set of PSN characteristics and attributes, as an initial effort to explain differences among state public safety programs.