Towards a Conceptual Framework for Pledging Sustainable e-Government Success

Sustaining successful e-government initiatives is of paramount importance for governments of developing countries. However, extant literature indicate that: (1) failure of e-government initiatives in those countries is very high and this demonstrates that the issue is challenging and poorly understood; and (2) sustainability aspect of e-government initiatives is a neglected topic and calls to extend e-government research beyond success. This research, thus, tries to explore the potential relationship between two concepts (e-government success and sustainability) in an integrated manner. The paper presents a case of a G2G project in Ethiopia and structurational model of technology was used as a theoretical foundation. The study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding success and sustainability of e-government initiatives.