Work, friendship, and media use for information exchange in a networked organization
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Profiling the EG Research Community and Its Core
EGOV '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Government
Issues and strategies for conducting cross-national e-government comparative research
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
International digital government research: purpose, value, prospects
Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference on Public Administration Online: Challenges and Opportunities
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The end result of scientific collaboration is generating knowledge and simultaneously diffusing knowledge across expertise and geographical boundaries. In response, there have been significant increases in internationalization and cross-national characteristics of digital government research that give rise to the issues of multicultural research team composition. Considering the significant and growing trends of multi-cultural research team in Digital Government research, this study aims to investigate the determinants of digital government research team formation using the ERGM model from social network analysis. The data are derived from North American Digital Government Working Group, a working group of digital government researchers from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The data shows that network closure and short distance structure characterize the structure of North American Digital Government research network and trusted relationship is critical factor affecting the formation of research collaboration. In addition, this study also found that reputation or information technology alone is not a credible determinant of scientific collaboration construction. Thus, to successfully engage in research collaboration cross-discipline and/or cross-region using online collaboration tools, researchers need to establish credible trust relationship to warrant the success of collaboration.