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Achieving employees’ agile response in e-governance: exploring the synergy of technology and group collaboration

Achieving employees’ agile response in e-governance: exploring the synergy of technology and group collaboration
Achieving employees’ agile response in e-governance: exploring the synergy of technology and group collaboration

The transformation of technology and collaboration methods driven by the e-government system forces government employees to reconsider their daily workflow and collaboration with colleagues. Despite the extensive existing knowledge of technology usage and collaboration, there are limitations in explaining the synergy between technology usage and group collaboration in achieving agile response from the perspective of government employees, particularly in the e-government setting. To address these challenges, this study provides a holistic understanding of the successful pathway to agile response in e-governance from the perspective of government employees. This study explores a dual path to achieve agile response in e-governance through qualitative analysis, involving 34 in-depth semi-structured interviews with government employees in several government sectors in China. By employing three rounds of coding processes and adopting Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM), this study identifies the five-layer mechanisms leading to agile response in e-governance, considering both government employee technology usage and group collaboration perspectives. Findings of this study provides suggestions and implications for achieving agile response in e-governance.

Agile response in e-governance, Government employee, Group collaboration, Public sector, Technology usage
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Bao, Ying
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Cheng, Xusen
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Su, Linlin
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Zarifis, Alex
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Bao, Ying
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Bao, Ying, Cheng, Xusen, Su, Linlin and Zarifis, Alex (2024) Achieving employees’ agile response in e-governance: exploring the synergy of technology and group collaboration. Group Decision and Negotiation. (doi:10.1007/s10726-024-09911-y).

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The transformation of technology and collaboration methods driven by the e-government system forces government employees to reconsider their daily workflow and collaboration with colleagues. Despite the extensive existing knowledge of technology usage and collaboration, there are limitations in explaining the synergy between technology usage and group collaboration in achieving agile response from the perspective of government employees, particularly in the e-government setting. To address these challenges, this study provides a holistic understanding of the successful pathway to agile response in e-governance from the perspective of government employees. This study explores a dual path to achieve agile response in e-governance through qualitative analysis, involving 34 in-depth semi-structured interviews with government employees in several government sectors in China. By employing three rounds of coding processes and adopting Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM), this study identifies the five-layer mechanisms leading to agile response in e-governance, considering both government employee technology usage and group collaboration perspectives. Findings of this study provides suggestions and implications for achieving agile response in e-governance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 November 2024
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 November 2024
Published date: 15 November 2024
Keywords: Agile response in e-governance, Government employee, Group collaboration, Public sector, Technology usage

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Local EPrints ID: 496355
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/496355
ISSN: 0926-2644
PURE UUID: 4fb13b7f-baec-4e3a-8fb0-447b5ff54de5
ORCID for Alex Zarifis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3103-4601

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Date deposited: 12 Dec 2024 17:44
Last modified: 22 Aug 2025 02:43

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Author: Ying Bao
Author: Xusen Cheng
Author: Linlin Su
Author: Alex Zarifis ORCID iD

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