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Title:
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LOCAL E-GOVERNMENT, THE POWER OF COGNITIVE ALIGNMENT |
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Author(s):
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Godefroy Dang Nguyen , Jocelyne Trémenbert |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-07-6 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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e-government, e-administration, statistical inquiry, IT maturation cycle |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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95 |
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Last Page:
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102 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The state of the art literature about e-administration adoption (e.g Layne and Lee (2001)), claims that there is a process of adoption of IT, unfolded through several stages. Our hypothesis is that IT adoption, as much as any strong organizational and cognitive process, looks very much like a diffusion process with thresholds. Although the usage of computer is already well established, connectivity requires competences that are not acquired progressively. A trigger factor has to be present which provokes a cognitive and organizational alignment sometimes very spectacular in small municipalities. This makes the variegated usages of IT mutually reinforcing. We verify our theoretical hypothesis through a statistical analysis of an inquiry on local government in Brittany, focused on both e-government and e-administration. We end up with a typology which summarizes the pattern of usages by municipalities. The statistical study is complemented by a series of case studies on smallest municipalities which confirms the cognitive alignment hypothesis. While 50% of Breton municipalities are barely using IT, and to some extent have not yet entered the maturation cycle, a significant group of small ones has a strong intensity of usage, contradicting a maturation cycle. |
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