TY - GEN
T1 - Issues and strategies for conducting cross-national e-Government comparative research
AU - Gharawi, Mohammed A.
AU - Pardo, Theresa A.
AU - Guerrero, Santiago
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper addresses and discusses the central issues that researchers have to deal with when conducting cross-national comparative research within the area of e-government. The issues are classified into two main categories. The first category represents the issues and challenges that may affect the reliability and the quality of data being collected for comparative studies. The second category represents the remaining issues related to the research objective, the selection process of countries and the analytical strategy. The paper discusses the major alternatives of these issues and provides a rationale for the selection process among them. The paper concludes by discussing the interrelations between the identified issues and clarifying the main decisions that researchers have to take when conducting cross-national comparative research.
AB - This paper addresses and discusses the central issues that researchers have to deal with when conducting cross-national comparative research within the area of e-government. The issues are classified into two main categories. The first category represents the issues and challenges that may affect the reliability and the quality of data being collected for comparative studies. The second category represents the remaining issues related to the research objective, the selection process of countries and the analytical strategy. The paper discusses the major alternatives of these issues and provides a rationale for the selection process among them. The paper concludes by discussing the interrelations between the identified issues and clarifying the main decisions that researchers have to take when conducting cross-national comparative research.
KW - Comparative e-Government research
KW - Cross-national comparison
KW - International research
KW - Managing comparative research
KW - Methodological problems
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77949287786
U2 - 10.1145/1693042.1693076
DO - 10.1145/1693042.1693076
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781605586632
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 163
EP - 170
BT - ICEGOV 2009 - 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV 2009
Y2 - 10 November 2009 through 13 November 2009
ER -