Investigating the Barriers to G2G Adoption

Compared to other e-government sectors, Government-to-Government (G2G) is a new research area. Up to now, a commonly accepted definition doesn’t exist and the domain of G2G projects is still unclear. The short experience accumulated in these few years isn’t enough for the responsible groups to extrapolate widely accepted theories. Many theories are concerned only with the technical aspect of intergovernmental cooperation; others on the contrary, try to give a broader vision including organizational and cultural issues. This paper examines the importance and main G2G barriers of development. A selected review of current literature on the G2G barriers were used to propose a conceptual framework to study the multiple barriers influencing G2G adoption. Investigating this framework within one of the local governments (council) in the UK, this analysis examines the extent to which G2G barriers are currently reflected in the practical guides. This paper ends with highlighting the significant barriers and those which have been overcome by some emerging tools. We conclude with eliminating some barriers not showing empirical significance in our case under investigation, while classifying some barriers that can be grouped and examined together as they deal with similar issues or with issues that are interrelated.