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Communications of the ACM
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HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 04
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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e-Gov research quality improvements since 2003: more rigor, but research (perhaps) redefined
EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
Is e-government research a flash in the pan or here for the long shot?
EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
The e-government melting pot: lacking new public management and innovation flavor?
EGOV'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic Government
Citation analysis for e-government research
Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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The emerging research area of e-Government is gradually moving towards a level of maturity on the back of increasingly rigorous empirical research. Yet, there has been little theoretical progress and a cumulative tradition is not emerging. We argue that a principle reason for this is a lack of shared understanding about basic concepts and entities amongst scholars in the field. Specifically, the entities that form the bedrock of e-Government research, such as "Government" and "Citizen" are conceptualized at a very general level of abstractions and treated as homogenous groups. We argue that existing models and frameworks fail to see the vast differences that exist between categories of these entities. Without a finer grained conceptualization, comparison of findings across different research studies is not possible and thus transfer of knowledge between different projects is difficult. This is a fundamental obstacle in developing a cumulative tradition. Based on an examination of the literature, we propose categories of "Government" and "Citizen" at a finer grain and discuss implications for both practice and research that stems from our conceptualization.