In this thesis I undertake a study of Canadian municipal open data initiatives in order to
assess the current state of the programs and to gauge the role (s) that these initiatives may …

Abstract Terms such as Network Society or Information Society have gained enormous
importance within European policy work and the European Commission's aim to create and …

The idea of 'communities of practice'was one of the most successful to travel from academic
research into the world of business and management. Originally an analytical concept to …

Governments' growing presence in the social media sphere has drawn attention to the
knowledge creation best practices that help serve citizens more effectively. A wide range of …

This doctoral thesis analyzes the introduction, development, evolution and impacts of the
Multi-Year Accountability Agreements, which were introduced to the Ontario post-secondary …

In this thesis I undertake a study of Canadian municipal open data initiatives in order to
assess the current state of the programs and to gauge the role (s) that these initiatives may …

This paper demonstrates how the choice of instrument facilitates acceptance of a new
accountability requirement in the Ontario university sector as it helps balance the …

This study explores e-Government in developing countries and enterprise architecture (EA).
This chapter begins, in Section 1. 2, by describing the background of this study. It is followed …

This chapter explores the relationship between dynamic characteristics of citizens, their e-
government use, and trust in government using multiple measures of citizen characteristics …

With the level of public trust in government at its historic low (Saad 2011), much research in
public administration has been devoted to studying factors that influence citizen trust in …