Track: Electronic Government
Minitrack: E-Government Foundations and Methods

The advent of e-Government has sparked debates across the world on its social, political, and economic consequences. Despite certain rhetoric on the changes envisioned, it is as yet unclear to what extent this kind of initiative can help provide solutions to the problems of public organizations, citizens, enterprises, or other interested parties. In such a complex and multifaceted scenario, it is essential that research verifies and critically scrutinizes everything that the current discourse tends to consider an undisputable truth. If this does not happen, the risk is that our view of the reality becomes misleading, leading to interpretive errors and even actual illusions. In brief, the Minitrack proposes to garner reflective contributions from researchers interested in the foundations of e-Government, in the belief that a higher level of knowledge and a solid conceptual framework can not only benefit the research, but also better inform management practice.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Methodological and epistemological challenges in e-Government research
* Design Science in e-Government research
* Inter- versus multi-disciplinary e-Government research
* Epistemologies in e-Government research
* E-Government, Public Management Information Systems and Information Systems research: breakage or continuity?
* Theory building in e-Government
* Critical Management Studies and e-Government research
* Organization theory and e-Government theory
* Social studies of ICT and e-Government research

Co-chairs:
Bjoern Niehaves (Primary Contact)
European Research Center for Information Systems
University of Muenster, Germany
Leonardo-Campus 3D-48149 Muenster, Germany
Phone: +49-251-833-8087
Email: bjoern.niehaves@ercis.uni-muenster.de

Maddalena Sorrentino
State University of Milan, Italy
Dept. of Economics, Business, and Statistics
Via Conservatorio, 7I-20122 Milan, Italy
Phone: +39-2-5032-1148
Email: maddalena.sorrentino@unimi.it

Anthony M Cresswell
Center for Technology in Government
University at Albany-SUNY
187 Wolf RdAlbany, NY 12205, USA
Phone +1-518-442-3766
Fax: +1-518-442-3886
Email: tcresswell@ctg.albany.edu