The e-government melting pot: lacking new public management and innovation flavor?

  • Authors:

  • Møyfrid Kårstad Sannarnes;Helle Zinner Henriksen;Kim Viborg Andersen

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Systems, Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway;Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Fredriksberg, Denmark;Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Fredriksberg, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The paper argues that e-government literature has by large not infused New Public Management (NPM) literature or innovation studies on e-government. Rather, e-government literature has used relative simple frameworks and observations from the NPM and innovation studies and applied them in studies of e-government implementation. Based on a literature review of 60 peer and double blind reviewed scientific studies, this paper argues that the domain has only been subject to research for about half a decade and that the domain is still unexplored in many aspects. One major absence is a lack of cross referencing of studies and limited number of cumulative studies on whether e-government can aid NPM or fuel innovation. However, the good news is that the literature review demonstrates that researchers entering the domain mainly base their research on empirical studies.