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Citizens’ adoption of an electronic government system: towards a unified view

  • Banita Lal
    ,
  • Nripendra P. Rana
    ,
  • Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
    ,
  • Michael D. Williams
    ,
  • Marc Clement
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Abstract

Sluggish adoption of emerging electronic government (eGov) applications continues to be a problem across developed and developing countries. This research tested the nine alternative theoretical models of technology adoption in the context of an eGov system using data collected from citizens of four selected districts in the state of Bihar in India. Analysis of the models indicates that their performance is not up to the expected level in terms of path coefficients, variance in behavioural intention, or the fit indices of the models. In response to the underperformance of the alternative theoretical models to explain the adoption of an eGov system, this research develops a unified model of electronic government adoption and tests it using the same data. The results indicate that the proposed research model outperforms all alternative models of technology adoption by explaining 77 % of variance in behavioural intention, with acceptable values of fit indices and significant relationships between each pair of hypothesised factors.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 549-568

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Information Systems Frontiers (Volume 19, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 24/11/2015

Publication status

Published - 24/11/2015

ISSN

1387-3326

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622858
  • Scopus: 85022325680

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