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TY - JOUR
T1 - Imbrications of institutional logics
T2 - the case of an e-government initiative in Greece
AU - Hayes, Niall
AU - Introna, Lucas
AU - Petrakaki, Dinitra
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - This paper examines critically whether e-government initiatives can be conceived of as representing a shift from a bureaucratic to a citizen-centric institutional logic. We draw upon a longitudinal study of a Greek e-government initiative that introduced one-stop shops for the delivery of government services. Based on institutional theory, we provide a framework that illustrates the domains of institutional change that accompany e-government projects and show how such institutional change can be understood as complex imbrications of contrasting institutional logics rather than one institutional logic displacing another. We argue that imbricated logics may have many unintended consequences which are not simply the outcome of either of the logics but are emergent from the imbrication.
AB - This paper examines critically whether e-government initiatives can be conceived of as representing a shift from a bureaucratic to a citizen-centric institutional logic. We draw upon a longitudinal study of a Greek e-government initiative that introduced one-stop shops for the delivery of government services. Based on institutional theory, we provide a framework that illustrates the domains of institutional change that accompany e-government projects and show how such institutional change can be understood as complex imbrications of contrasting institutional logics rather than one institutional logic displacing another. We argue that imbricated logics may have many unintended consequences which are not simply the outcome of either of the logics but are emergent from the imbrication.
KW - e-government
KW - institutional logic
KW - imbrication
KW - institutional change
KW - bureaucracy
KW - Greece
U2 - 10.1111/ntwe.12029
DO - 10.1111/ntwe.12029
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 124
EP - 138
JO - New Technology, Work and Employment
JF - New Technology, Work and Employment
SN - 0268-1072
IS - 2
ER -