When the complexity of the IS evaluation met with the top-down compulsory e-Government systems, new ways of thinking should be reminded. This study takes the perspective of both managers and individual users among the organization, and proposes a success model based on DeLone and McLean’s model and the ERG needs theory. The pilot study reveals organizations significantly stress on the relatedne...

Despite the immeasurable investment in e-government initiatives throughout the world, such initiatives have yet to succeed in fully meeting expectations and desired outcomes. A key objective of this research article is to support the government of the UAE in realizing its vision of e-government transformation. It presents an innovative framework to support e-government implementation, which was...

Federal, state, and local governments spend substantial resources on training child welfare staff.Moreover, enhanced training is often proposed as a core solution to many problems facing public child welfare and other human service agencies. In this paper we conceptualize training as an element of the policy implementation process. We use data from a multiple case study evaluation of nine feder...

In this paper, we measure the political bias of newspapers in China and investigate the determinants of this bias. Based on the content of 110 general-interest Chinese newspapers from 1998 to 2011, we construct a measure of newspaper political bias. We find that, in addition to serving as a top-down communication device, the political bias of newspapers is used by the Chinese government to moni...