The internet revolution and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have dramatically changed how citizens and business interact with their government. Almost all the government website supply the local tourism information since the tourism is becoming increasingly important for local economic development. This paper is an attempt to compare the current development of the e-g...

T he topic of the “credit crunch” received considerable attention during the early 1990s. As a result, several initiatives aimed at eliminating regulatory disincentives to lending were put in place. For example, documentation requirements recently were reduced to the legal minimum for loans to small and medium-sized businesses. Also, examiners and bankers were encouraged to emphasize the charac...

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) is well known to assess quality and business processes in a variety of sectors, including government. In this study, we investigate the relationship between aspects of the MBNQA’s leadership triad and knowledge management in an e-government context. Specifically, we survey 1,100 employees of a medium-sized city government in the United States ...

Security compliance has now become a major information systems management problem thanks to government regulations. Organizations are now developing methodologies and tools to assess compliance of Information Systems (IS) security. The research outlined in this paper is part of a longitudinal action research study which aims to help inform and improve security within Whole of Government (WoG). ...

Although, e-government offers citizens various advantages, the usage rates still lag behind their potentials. Many studies have analysed factors influencing the e-government adoption, however, neglecting the aspect of communication as one crucial antecedent for intention to use. This study tries to close this gap by investigating the role of communication in the acceptance of e-government. We c...

The Maltese government has instigated its vision of an ‘e’ infrastructure to support the islands’ Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in their efforts to meet the challenges of the new unbounded digital economy. This paper takes an early look at the perception of ‘e’ potentials amongst Maltese entrepreneurs. Although the findings depicted a generally positive attitude towards the concept ...

This paper focuses on small and medium-sized companies who have received support from the government for development work. All companies acquired a new resource, but the situations were found to differ in terms of how the new resource was fitted into the existing resource collection. In this paper, three such situations are analysed, and a taxonomy for classifying such situations is suggested.