Understanding the Linkage Among the Diffident IT Artifacts in Public Administration: An Evidence on Smart City Pilot Program and Government Website Performance in China

Authors

Meiyin Huang, Tsinghua UniversityFollow
Zhongqi Yu, Tsinghua UniversityFollow
Rui Yang, 1School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic ScienceFollow
Nan Zhang, Tsinghua UniversityFollow

Abstract

Intangible IT artifacts such as e-government, big data, smart city and IoT play a critically important role in public administration. However, as the most universal and representative IT artifacts in public administration, e-government and smart cities are close in theory and notion, separate and independent in praxis in China. Considering the national smart city pilot program as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper utilizes the PSM-DID approach to empirically test whether implementing smart city pilot programs improves government website performance for prefectural-level cities in China. The empirical results show that the smart city pilot program can significantly improve government website performance. Our findings also help to shed light on the linkage among the diffident IT artifacts in public administration.

Recommended Citation

Huang, Meiyin; Yu, Zhongqi; Yang, Rui; and Zhang, Nan, "Understanding the Linkage Among the Diffident IT Artifacts in Public Administration: An Evidence on Smart City Pilot Program and Government Website Performance in China" (2020). PACIS 2020 Proceedings. 126.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2020/126