Understanding e-Government project trajectories from an actor-network perspective

被引:114
作者
Heeks, Richard [1 ]
Stanforth, Carolyne [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Manchester, Dev Informat Grp, IDPM, Manchester M13 9QH, Lancs, England
关键词
e-Government; IS success; IS failure; actor-network theory; politics;
D O I
10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000676
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
A number of models have been offered to help explain the trajectories of e-Government projects: their frequent failures and their rarer successes. Most, though, lack a sense of the political interaction of stakeholders that is fundamental to understanding the public sector. This paper draws on actor-network theory to provide a perspective that is used to explain the trajectory of an e-Government case study. This perspective is found to provide a valuable insight into the local and global actor-networks that surround e-Government projects. The mobilisation, interaction and disintegration of these networks underpins the course of such projects, and can itself be understood in relation to network actor power: not through a static conception of 'power over' others but through the dynamic-enacted concept of 'power to'. As well as providing a research tool for analysis of e-Government project trajectories, the local/global networks approach also offers insights into e-Government leadership as a process of network formation and maintenance; and into the tensions between network stabilisation and design stabilisation.
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页码:165 / 177
页数:13
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