Organisational culture plays an important role in the success of the adoption of technology and the development of the organisation; therefore, it is very important to understand how organisational culture impacts the process of implementing technology, either positively or negatively. The aim of this study is to explore the role of organisational culture in digital government implementation in Omani public sector organisations. This study used mixed methods as a research methodology. In the qualitative phase, semi-structured interviews were conducted with top and middle management and at operational levels in the Omani public sector organisations. In the quantitative phase, a survey was distributed to employees within the public sector organisations to build on the findings of the first stage and develop an understanding of the relationship between organisational culture and implementation of digital government in Oman. This study found that there is a relationship between organisational culture and digital government implementation. It was found that the type of organisational culture has some impact on the digital government implementation as it was found that the organisations with the clan culture type had low levels of implementation of digital government whereas, organisations with the hierarchy culture type had high levels of implementation. Moreover, the study found that middle managers in public sector organisations in Oman had a critical impact on the digital government implementation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:19:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PEDRO.pdf: 1575259 bytes, checksum: dd85d138802259660db83681f67418cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Rolê, in urban slang means to walk around, to go for a walk. Following this definition, this research walks through files posted by urban writers, in the great computer‟s world wide net. The technological advance allowed great changes in the way we communicate to each other. The spaces for human relationship have spread, and are also cyberspace and the rolê now can be digital. To comprehend this dive in the virtual, present in every generation of the XXI century, it is necessary to get to know the origins of the internet e also concepts which refer to the virtual space and the changes in communication towards the digital technological means. The approaches presented here depart from historicities, one about the tags/pixos/graffiti and, in parallel, about the great virtual net. in the arts field, before the internet, some artist developed a world wide connection of files exchange, through the post; highlighted here the Fluxus group, as one of the pioneers. Among innumerous files, pieces of art, photos and cards circulated, which provoked ruptures and a series of transformations in the art institutions and allowed a historical record. In this flow of postal, conceptual, art, the work of Cildo Meireles and Paulo Bruscky consolidated, in Brazil, an artistic production from autonomic spaces, and promoted alternatives circuits of information. Previous to the internet, this artists published their pieces with political and symbolic information and, even towards a military regime, it was possible the circulation of the information among the social environment, using the mass media channels and the traditional exchange systems. In the same way, the urban writers, autonomous, made the polyphonies circulate the digital using the great net as an information exchange channel, as a great advertising, activism and political protagonism tool / Rolê na gíria urbana quer dizer caminhar, dar uma volta. Seguindo esta definição, esta pesquisa caminha por arquivos postados pelos escritores urbanos, nas vias da grande rede mundial de computadores. O avanço tecnológico permitiu grandes mudanças na maneira de nos comunicarmos. Os espaços de relacionamento humano se estenderam, e também são ciberespaço e o rolê agora pode ser também digital. Para compreender este mergulho no virtual, presente em toda a geração do século XXI, é necessário conhecer a origem da internet e também conceitos referentes ao espaço virtual e às mudanças na comunicação diante dos meios tecnológicos digitais. As abordagens aqui apresentadas partem de historicidades, uma sobre os tags/pixos/graffiti e, paralelamente, sobre a grande rede virtual. No campo das artes, anteriores a internet, alguns artistas desenvolveram uma conexão mundial de troca de arquivos, por meio do correio; destaca-se aqui o grupo Fluxus como um dos pioneiros. Dentre os inúmeros arquivos, circulavam obras de artes, fotografias e cartões, que provocaram rupturas e devires nas instituições das artes e possibilitaram um registro histórico. Nesse fluxo da arte postal, conceitual, o trabalho de Cildo Meireles e Paulo Bruscky consolidou, no Brasil, uma produção artística a partir de espaços autônomos, e promoveu circuitos alternativos de informação. Precursores à internet, esses artistas publicaram suas obras com informações de caráter político e simbólico e, mesmo diante de um regime militar, foi possível a circulação da informação pelo meio social, usando os próprios canais de mass media e os sistemas tradicionais de troca. Da mesma forma os escritores urbanos, autônomos, fizeram circular suas polifonias pelo digital usando a grande rede como um canal de troca de informação, como uma grande ferramenta publicitária, ativismo e protagonização política

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