A study of e-market adoption barriers in the local government sector

Business & Economics

• E-market 100%
• Government Sector 86%
• Local Government 84%
• Public Sector 53%
• Local Authorities 28%
• Technology Adoption 19%
• Cost Savings 14%
• Procurement 13%
• Innovative Technologies 11%
• Managers 9%
• E-procurement 6%
• Limited Attention 6%
• Public Sector Organizations 5%
• Risk Perception 5%
• Factors 5%
• Institutional Theory 5%
• Empirical Evidence 5%
• Body of Knowledge 5%
• Readiness 5%
• Qualitative Data 5%
• In-depth Interviews 4%
• Firm Size 4%
• Consultants 4%
• Inefficiency 4%
• Private Sector 4%
• Costs 3%
• Software 3%
• Stakeholders 3%
• Design Methodology 2%

Social Sciences

• market 41%
• public sector 38%
• costs 14%
• savings 10%
• manager 7%
• interview 4%
• private sector 4%
• literature 4%
• deficit 4%
• utilization 4%
• firm 4%
• data analysis 3%
• stakeholder 3%
• software 3%
• knowledge 3%
• methodology 2%
• evidence 2%
• learning 1%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Costs 27%
• Managers 25%
• Risk perception 22%
• Industry 6%