Sustainability Framework for e-Government Success

Sustaining successful e-government initiatives is of paramount importance for governments of developing countries because failure of the initiatives in those countries is very high and this also demonstrates that the issue has been challenging and poorly understood. Despite the high failure rate, e-government initiatives still receive huge investment and this in turn necessitates a long term benefit out of the investments. Sustainability of e-government initiatives is not treated with the seriousness it deserves. As a result, opportunities that would have been available for citizens in developing countries out of those e-government initiatives have not been well exploited. This research, thus, tries to explore the potential relationship between e-government success and sustainability in an integrated manner. The study has made both theoretical and practical contributions. In terms of theoretical contributions, the study proposes a conceptual framework based on the insights obtained from the empirical work.