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E-Government and the Fight Against Corruption: Conceptual Modeland Five Case Studies from India

2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/15228053.2012.10845710

2333-6897

Amitabh Ojha, Shailendra Palvia,

Microfinance and Financial Inclusion

AbstractAbstractCorruption in varying degrees exists in almost all countries. But its alarmingly high levels and persistence in developing countries such as India is a cause for deep concern. Indeed, international agencies and governments are continually engaged in devising new strategies to check corruption. Although e-government has held much promise in this regard, its impact on developing country corruption presents a mixed picture. The paper connects to the relevant theories and posits a conceptual model of e-government impact on corruption. In addition, a few Indian case-studies are re-visited and their outcomes with regard to corruption are analyzed afresh in terms of the conceptual model. This paper should help e-government impact research to move forward from non-theory to theory driven.Keywords: E-GovernmentCorruptionIndiaEconomics of crimeProbability of convictionAgency theoryDisintermediationTransaction Cost EconomicsAsset Specificity Additional informationNotes on contributorsAmitabh OjhaAmitabh Ojha is a senior civil servant with the Government of India, Ministry of Railways. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. In addition, he has master and bachelor degrees respectively in software and electrical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. Dr. Ojha has held senior level positions on the Indian Railways in areas of electrical engineering, information systems, and general administration. Besides, he served a diplomatic tenure at High Commission of India, London and also worked for the Government of India, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, New Delhi as a director. His research interest is in the areas of e-government adoption, linkage between e-government and citizens' trust in government, impact of e-government on corruption, and administrative reforms through e-government. His research has appeared in Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), and in edited volumes of International Conference on E-Governance (ICEG).Shailendra PalviaShailendra C. Jain Palvia is a Professor of MIS at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. During 1997–2004, he was the director of MIS at Long Island University. He received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, he received his B.S. in Chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India. His research interests and publications are in the areas of — Management of the Systems Development Process, Human Side of Information Technology, Social Issues of Information Technology, Global Issues of Information Technology, IT Applications and Architecture, Telecommuting, Computer Software Training Methods, Global Electronic Commerce, Global Outsourcing of IT and IT Enabled Services, and e-Government. He has published over 150 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, and books. His publications are in journals like the Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Journal of Systems Management, International Journal of Information Management, Electronic Markets, Information Resource Management Journal, Journal of Industrial Management and Data Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, and Journal of Information Systems Education. As Founding Editor, he edited the Journal of IT Case and Application Research (JITCAR) for 9 years during 1999–2007. Since 2002, he has been chairing the annual international smart-sourcing conferences (http www.outsourceglobal.org.) Over the years, he has been invited speaker to Germany, India, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, and Russia.