Does managerial orientation matter? The adoption of reinventing government and e-government at the municipal level†

  1. M. Jae Moon1,2,
  2. Donald F. Norris3

Article first published online: 14 JAN 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2005.00185.x

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Information Systems Journal

Information Systems Journal

Volume 15, Issue 1, pages 43–60, January 2005

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Moon, M. J. and Norris, D. F. (2005), Does managerial orientation matter? The adoption of reinventing government and e-government at the municipal level. Information Systems Journal, 15: 43–60. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2005.00185.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Public Administration, Korea University, Anam-Dong 5-1, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 136-701, Korea, email: mjmoon@korea.ac.kr,

  2. 2

    George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A & M University, email: jmoon@bushschool.tamu.edu, and

  3. 3

    Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, Professor of Public Policy, 427 Public Policy Building, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA, email: norris@umbc.edu

  • †

    An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2003 Western Political Science Conference, Denver, CO, March 26–29, 2003. The authors would like to thank symposium editors and anonymous reviewers for their insightful and constructive comments and suggestions on this paper.

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  2. Article first published online: 14 JAN 2005

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Keywords:

  • e-government;
  • reinventing government;
  • managerial innovativeness;
  • public management

Abstract. This paper explores the effect of managerial innovativeness in municipal government on the adoption of e-government, and it examines the association between the adoption of e-government and its outcome. The authors posit an exploratory model: The first part of the model shows how adoption of municipal e-government is determined by managerial innovativeness orientation, government capacity and institutional characteristics such as city size and government type. The second part suggests how e-government outcomes are associated with the adoption of e-government, government capacity and institutional characteristics. Analysing two different survey data sets of American municipal reinvention and e-government, this study finds that managerial innovativeness orientation and city size are the most compelling determinants of municipal e-government adoption. Different levels of e-government adoption may yield different outcomes.

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