The values and motives behind e-Government projects are sometimes taken forgranted and are often considered as synchronised. Electronic archives can beconsidered a vital e-Government project, and the aim of this study was toinvestigate the values behind electronic archive projects for government agencies.This was achieved by investigating four different specifically chosen governmentagencies: three with electronic archives, and one without, and then assessing themusing the theoretical framework set out in Rose et al's article ’Managinge-Government’ published in Info Systems Journal in 2015: value position theory.The chosen government agencies were: Migrationsverket (the Swedish MigrationAgency), Skatteverket (the Swedish Tax Agency), Energimydigheten (the SwedishEnergy Agency), and Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning (Sweden’s GeologicalSurvey- SGU). Interviews were conducted with those archivists responsible for theelectronic archives at each of these four public agencies. The results of theinterviews were analysed using the value position theory. As a result, severaldifferent values were identified, though the values attached to professionality andefficiency ideals were more identifiable in the interviews than the values attachedto service and engagement. The values guiding the electronic archive projects werefound to be largely congruent. However, these values are not necessarilyrecognised on the state level, as shown by the fact that Statens Servicecenter’sproject has ended without result.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:miun-42517 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Nordgren, Björn |
| Publisher | Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för informationssystem och –teknologi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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