E-GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN INDIA & JOURNAL OF IT CASE AND APPLICATION RESEARCH (JITCAR)

Abstract

Corruption in varying degrees exists in almost all countries. But its alarmingly high levels and persistence in developing countries such as India is a cause for deep concern. Indeed, international agencies and governments are continually engaged in devising new strategies to check corruption. Although e-government has held much promise in this regard, its impact on developing country corruption presents a mixed picture. This presentation connects to the relevant theories and posits a conceptual model of e-government impact on corruption. In addition, five Indian case-studies are re-visited and their outcomes with regard to corruption are analyzed afresh in terms of the conceptual model. This paper should help e-government impact research to move forward from non-theory to theory driven.

JITCAR focuses on research based on in-depth study of real world cases and applications to explain existing theories and concepts or to help in building new theories and frameworks. It is a double blind refereed international quarterly journal that is supported by IT scholars from all over the world. The journal is international in all respects: content, authors, readers, reviewers, and editors. JITCAR publishes case and application research articles focusing on any size of organization: start-up, small, medium, large, or multinational company. These cases and applications can originate from any country in the world: advanced, newly industrialized, developing, or under-developed. Furthermore, the primary thrust of a case or application may include artificial intelligence, business process reengineering, cross-cultural issues, cybernetics, decision support systems, electronic commerce, firewalls and internet, groupware, human side of IT, information infrastructures, joint application development, knowledge based systems, local area networks, management information systems, neural networks, office automation, prototyping, query languages, robotics, systems analysis, telemedicine, ubiquitous computing, video-conferencing, webonomics etc. This journal has been in existence since 1999. It is published by Taylor & Francis in existence since 1796.