Communication technology allows companies to deliver services electronically. This leads to a lower dependence on geographical location. Historically, companies have moved IT related work to countries where wages are lower to decrees costs. When IT systems over time increases in complexity, competence and resource availability becomes more important. In order to achieve success, the customer and vendor need to work closely. In previous research the customers’ point of view are mainly presented when examining the offshoring relation, but participation effect the vendor as well. The need to examine the offshoring relationship from the vendor’s point of view has increased as the vendor becomes more significant. This thesis has examined the point of view of Indpro, an IT service provider located in Bangalore (India) primarily serving customers located in Sweden. The empirical materials are based on a field study of Indpro during the author´s ten-week stay in Bangalore, India, where daily work was conducted at Indpro’s office. Materials collected during the field study where analysed through the lens of the theoretical framework created by Balaji & Ahuja (2005), called the offshore project success model. In conclusion, there is no doubt that cross-cultural understanding and clear expectations form the foundation of a trusting relationship between the vendor and the customer, which builds project success.

Cette étude fournit un aperçu des tendances qui existent dans la littérature concernant le gouvernement électronique et le potentiel que ces systèmes ont pour les gouvernements, les entreprises, les employés et les citoyens dans la perspective des pays en développement. Pour comprendre la nature multidimensionnelle des systèmes de gouvernement électronique, cette étude présente un cadre de l'adoption par les citoyens de services du gouvernement électronique en intégrant la littérature sur l'acceptation de technologies et sur le succès du système d'information ainsi que les croyances d'attitude et de la société. Le modèle a été testé par une étude empirique au moyen de deux enquêtes, un questionnaire papier et une autre enquête sur internet. La modélisation d’équation structurelle a été utilisée pour tester les hypothèses.Les résultats de la recherche ont montré que par la capacité perçue à utiliser, le bénéfice fonctionnel, la confiance dans l'internet, la confiance dans le gouvernement et la satisfaction des utilisateurs sont de forts prédicteurs de l'intention des citoyens d’adopter des services de gouvernement électroniques. Nous trouvons également que l'effet de la qualité de l'information et la qualité du système sur l'adoption de l’e-gouvernement est totalement médiée par la capacité perçue à utiliser, le bénéfice fonctionnel, la confiance dans l'internet, la confiance dans le gouvernement et la satisfaction des utilisateurs. La capacité perçue à utiliser et la confiance dans le gouvernement s'avèrent être de significatifs médiateurs de la relation entre la qualité de service et l'adoption des services gouvernementaux en ligne. Nous ne trouvons pas d'effet direct significatif de risque perçu de terrorisme sur l'adoption des services gouvernementaux en ligne, cependant, nous trouvons un effet indirect par le bénéfice fonctionnel. Par ailleurs, nous trouvons un effet significatif du sexe, niveau d'éducation et du niveau d'expérience (avec Internet et avec les sites web du gouvernement) sur l'adoption des services gouvernementaux en ligne par les citoyens. On a constaté que l’âge n'avait pas d'effet significatif sur l'adoption des services gouvernementaux en ligne.En outre, la recherche fournit certaines suggestions utiles et implications pour les milieux académiques et les professionnels des services gouvernementaux en ligne. Cela permettra également de réduire les confusions dans l'esprit des citoyens, au sujet de l’adoption de l'e-gouvernement / Globalization has increased the importance of internet as a medium of communication almost in all aspects of our lives. The current exploratory research provides an insight into the trends that exist within literature concerning the area of Electronic Government (e-government) and the potential these have for the governments, businesses, employees and citizens in perspective of the developing countries. Globally the pace of implementing e-government services is rapidly increasing; however, despite high levels of investment, a broad range of applications, and various methods of access citizens have shown relatively low levels of usage of e-government services making it an interesting area of research. To encompass the multi-dimensional nature of e-government systems the current study presents a framework of citizens’ adoption of e-government services by integrating technology acceptance and information systems (IS) success literature along with citizens’ attitudinal and societal beliefs. In the proposed framework, the qualities of e-government websites such as perceived information quality (PIQ), perceived system quality (PSYQ) and perceived service quality (PSQ) along with social influence (SI), perceived risk of terrorism (PRT) are posited to influence citizens’ adoption of e-government services (ADP) directly and indirectly through perceived ability to use (PATU), perceived functional benefit (PFB), trust in the medium (TM), trust in the government (TG) and user satisfaction (SAT). The research uses a citizen-centric approach to determine citizens’ overall acceptability/adoptability of e-government services. Although we may generalize the results to other countries, yet the primary intention of this research is to shed light on how to approach, manage and implement such projects in developing countries. The model has been examined through an empirical study using paper-based along with a web-based survey. Structural equation modeling has been used to test the proposed hypotheses. The results of the research show that perceived ability to use, perceived functional benefit, trust in medium, trust in government and user satisfaction are strong predictors of citizens’ adoption of e-government services. We also find evidence that the effect of perceived information quality and perceived system quality on adoption of e-government services is totally mediated by perceived ability to use, perceived functional benefit, trust in medium, trust in government and user satisfaction. Perceived ability to use and trust in government are found to be significant mediators on the relationship between perceived service quality and adoption of e-government services. We do not find any significant direct effect of perceived risk of terrorism on adoption of e-government services rather we find an indirect effect through perceived functional benefit. We also find that perceived ability to use, trust in medium and trust in government partially mediate the relationship between social influence and adoption of e-government services. Moreover, we find significant effect of gender, education level, experience with internet and with e-government websites on citizens’ adoption of e-government services. Age is found to have no significant effect on citizens’ adoption of e-government services. Further, the research provides some useful suggestions and implications for the academician and practitioners of e-government services assisting them in designing and implementing policies and strategies to increase the adoption of e-government services. This will also help reduce confusions in the minds of citizens, regarding e-government adoption

This qualitative study is of the interpretivist nature and it aims to examine how knowledge workers perceive their interaction with a knowledge management system when used for knowledge sharing purposes. The purpose is to offer answers to two research questions: How do knowledge workers perceive their interaction with knowledge management technology in relation to knowledge sharing? What are the benefits and challenges that knowledge workers experience in relation to knowledge managing and sharing when using a KMS system? The data was collected by applying qualitative research methods and by conducting five interviews with participants of an IT organization that has its head office in Sweden, but additional offices in other geographical locations. To be able to study the participants´ perception and the benefits of the use on both local and international levels, the interviewees were chosen from different sites in which their organization was operating. To provide the answers to these questions and to establish the foundation of this research, an extensive literature review on the problem area was carried out, and a theoretical framework has been employed to study the different aspects of this model in the context of knowledge management systems in relation to knowledge sharing among knowledge workers. As a result, additional derived attributes came from the findings and it is shown that users tend to relate knowledge quality with the completeness, frequency of update, and validity of the knowledge content that they are exposed to in the KMS. Similarly, they relate KMS quality to administrability and maintenance easiness, whereas organizational service providing quality in relation to knowledge sharing is more related to the aspects of organizational commitment and reliability. Moreover, the findings show that participants relate their intention to use the KMS to the attributes of convenience and practicality, and the levels of user satisfaction were in this case mainly related to the user´s perception of usefulness. Lastly, the perception of the benefits and reciprocal value-creating for both the organization and the individual was examined and the findings show that the users tend to relate these to the aspect of relevance, or in other words that the benefits are only perceived as useful by the user if they are identifiable, respectively the user being aware of the benefits and perceiving them as relevant.

隨著資訊與通訊科技的發達，電子化政府隨之興起，政府開始利用資訊與通訊科技服務民眾。對電子化政府而言，其面臨的顧客不只包含外部顧客─公民與企業，也包含一大群的內部顧客─公務人員，由於公務人員是電子化政府重要的內部顧客，了解他們對於電子化系統、服務的使用感受有其必要性，也顯現G2E計畫成效評估的重要性。有鑑於政府採購為國家龐大支出，因此，本研究以政府電子採購網作為研究的個案。 本研究回顧電子化政府計畫評估、顧客導向的電子化政府、顧客滿意度的影響因素三類文獻，並結合Heeks (2006)電子化政府價值鏈、DeLone & McLean資訊系統成功模型，以及朱斌妤(2010-2013)的G2E計畫指標，從內部使用者角度發展電子採購內部顧客成效評估因果模型，主要由六大構面組成，分別為組織管理、服務品質、系統品質、資訊品質、員工感受效益以及員工滿意度，並透過次級資料進行驗證。 研究結果發現，本研究提出的電子採購內部顧客成效評估因果模型具有一定的解釋力，各構面之間的影響關係皆達統計上的顯著。本研究也比較不同機關性質與標案性質，進行不同構面之間的路徑係數比較，結果顯示不同的機關性質、標案性質對於不同構面之間的路徑係數確實有影響，根據研究結果，本研究也提出了一些政策建議與後續研究的建議。 / Electronic Government (e-Government) is about governments interacting, conducting business and delivering services to their citizens and private companies electronically through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). All key stakeholders including the government employees, private sectors, and citizens benefit from successful implementation of ICTs. The usage evaluation from e-government employees’ point of view (G2E), i.e., the internal customers of e-government, is vital. This research uses Government e-Procurement System as a case study of G2E program evaluation. Topics of literature review for this research include e-Government programs assessment, customer-orientede-Government and influencing factors of customer’s satisfaction, combines with Heeks’ e-Government Value Chain, DeLone and McLean’s Information System Success Model, and Chu’s G2E programs assessment indicators, which propose a casual model for internal customers’ evaluation of e-Procurement system in Taiwan. This model consists of six dimensions－organization management, service squality, system quality, information quality, employee perceived benefits, and employee satisfaction. The outcomes of this research indicate that our model is strongly supported by the empirical data. This research also includes comparations of different organizations and procurement cases, which indicate that different organizations and procurement cases have difference in path coefficients. Finally, this research makes some suggestions for the improvement of e-Procurement policy, and for future researches.

本研究以針對B2B資訊系統設計之資訊系統成功模型(IS Success Model)作為假設架構，探討使用者滿意度與持續使用意願間的關係，並加入個人創新特質做為影響持續使用意願之假設，在研究架構中，分別探討資訊品質與系統品質與使用者滿意度的關係，以及使用者滿意度與個人創新特質分別對持續使用意願的關係。 本研究透過問卷法抽樣進行資料蒐集，選擇2010台北國際電子產業科技展之參展廠商作為研究對象，在回顧大量文獻與研究架構，並且排除無效問項後，進行問卷調查與分析，總共回收117份有效問卷，以PLS(Partial Least Squares)法進行分析後，得到以下結論： 使用者對於資訊系統的滿意度與系統品質及資訊品質呈現正相關，當資訊品質越高，也就是資訊系統產出的資訊之品質越好時；使用者滿意度會越高；當系統品質越高時，也就是資訊系統本身的特性越好時，使用者滿意度會越高。本研究更進一步發現，資訊系統持續使用意願受到使用者滿意度及個人創新特質影響，使用者滿意度與持續使用意願有正相關，滿意度越高時，持續使用的意願會越高；個人創新特質與持續使用意願也呈現正相關，當使用者之個人創新特質越強烈時，持續使用資訊系統的意願會越高。 / This research, based on the IS Success Model proposed by DeLone and McLean(1992), the B2B information system regarding the relationship between user satisfaction and continuance usage. Personal innovativeness was added to test its relationship with continuance usage. Within the hypothesized framework, the impacts of latent variables in system quality and information quality on user satisfaction are examined and tested, respectively. The research is conducted through sampling by a survey from companies attending the 2010 Taipei International Electronics Show. Of 121 samples collected, 117 are effective. By analyzing the samples with the PLS (Partial Least Squares) method, the research concluded the following: User satisfaction is positively influenced by system quality and information quality, which represents the characteristics of the information system itself and the form of information produced by the information system respectively. User satisfaction, together with personal innovativeness of the users, positively influence the continuance intentions to use the information systems.

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