Moderating effects of business-systems corruption on corruption in basic national institutions and electronic government maturity: Insights from a dynamic panel data analysis |
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| Institution: | 1. Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain;2. University of Valencia, Spain;3. ESIC Business & Marketing School, Spain;1. Smart Media Rep. (SMR), 82 Sangamsan-Ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul 03926, Republic of Korea;2. Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-Ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Information Systems and Analytics, National University of Singapore, Computing 1, 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417, Singapore;1. School of Management, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, 769008, India;2. Human Resource Management, School of Management, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, 769008, India;1. College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China;2. School of Information Systems and Technology Management, UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;1. Auburn University at Montgomery, United States;2. Louisiana Tech University, United States;3. The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States |
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| Abstract: | Corruption has emerged as a well-debated subject against the backdrop of electronic government (e-government). While e-government has attained a level of sophistication in leading countries, there are countries for which going digital remains comparatively new on their national schedules. Their struggle and lag in reaching maturity in e-government can be attributed to corruption, which is an infamous issue prevalent across the globe and argued to impede technological innovation. Despite such a possibility, there is a paucity of research examining the “corruption–e-government” linkage. This study, hence, adopts the institutional perspective for conceptualizing corruption and seeks to understand the relationship of corruption in basic national institutions and national stakeholder service systems with e-government maturity. Specifically, by grounding the discussion on the agency theory, the rent-seeking theory, and the perspective of institutions as structures of cooperation and power, this study analyses the moderating influence of corruption in a national stakeholder service system (i.e., business systems) on the relationship of corruption in three basic national institutions (i.e., political, legal, and media) with e-government maturity in a country. The hypothesized relationships are empirically validated using a panel data of 94 countries, and the findings confirm that political corruption, legal corruption, and business-systems corruption in a country play vital roles in influencing its e-government maturity. Implications of our results to research and practice are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | E-government maturity Corruption Institutions Businesses Dynamic panel data Agency theory Rent-seeking theory Institutions as structures of cooperation and power |
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