Understanding Organizational Barriers Influencing Local Electronic Government Adoption and Implementation: The Electronic Government Implementation Framework

researches in electronic government have indicated a number of organizational barriers that hinder the adoption and implementation of electronic government. this paper proposes a research framework for analysing how organizational barriers influence the adoption and implementation of e-government at local levels. the framework is constructed based on four organizational dimensions; adaptability, involvement, mission, and bureaucracy drawn from organizational theories and e-government literature. we found that organizational barriers which are identified in major e-government literature link to the dimensions of organizational culture and effectiveness. our conclusion is that the framework is relevant to understand organizational barriers influencing adoption and implementation of local e-government. the limitation of this study is that the framework has been developed based on the application of a theoretical lens on the e-government literature. it is now necessary to test this model in different contexts.