Towards a heuristic frame for transferring e-government technology

Resumo

This article addresses challenges in accomplishing technology transfer process involving the adaptation and implementation of e-government applications from a donor country to a recipient country. Here it is claimed that prior e-government research has overlooked existing technology transfer literature from the field of knowledge management. This work is aimed at addressing the underlying issues associated with the transfer of e-government technology, given different characteristics of donor and recipient organizations in terms of the socio-economic context and the dynamics of the technological infrastructure. Based on a review, interpretation, and synthesis of a broad range of both technology transfer, e-government and knowledge management literature, we extend the Information Technology Transfer Life-Cycle Model, as this well-known model was derived entirely based on empirical evidence. To this end, we propose a heuristic frame for e-government technology transfer. Finally, five propositions accrued from both the literature review and the proposed heuristic frame are set forth to be further tested, in order to better understand the process' dynamics of e-government technology transfer between countries. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Outro

Ano

2014

Instituição

Elsevier Inc

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso restrito

DOI

10.1016/j.giq.2013.09.005

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/23372

Temas

Tecnologia

Palavras-chave

e-GovernmentTechnology transferInformation systemsKnowledge managementDeveloping countriesCiências sociaisProgramação heurísticaTransferência de tecnologia