Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue about generation of
public value through smart technologies and strategies. The key argument is that smart …

Information and information technologies have become ubiquitous in the public sector and it
is difficult to think of a public problem or government service that does not involve them in …

This study presents a science map** approach to analysing the thematic evolution of the e-
Government field. We combine different bibliometric tools to analyse the evolution of the …

Many countries around the world are investing a great amount of resources in government IT
initiatives. However, few of these projects achieve their stated goals and some of them are …

The adoption of e-governing practices has revolutionised the administrative machinery of
governments worldwide by improving efficiency, transparency, and accountability …

The growing phenomenon of government social media requires better informed and more
complex studies, but all beginning with a clearer understanding of the current research …

It has been widely acknowledged recently that the research field of eParticipation suffers
from lack of comprehensive theoretical contributions, insufficient depth, and inconsistency in …

Abstract The domain of Digital Government Research (DGR) emerged at the end of the
1990s at the intersection of several traditional academic disciplines such as information …

The growth of smart cities is forcing governments to focus their efforts on the increase of
public value creation. Based on a literature review of prior research and on a questionnaire …

Public e-services are a broad and growing research field in which scholars and practitioners
from different domains are involved. However, the increasing attention devoted to public e …