Abstract
Utilizing the concept of “fit as moderation” from strategy literature, and by drawing from the literature on (1) corruption and growth; and (2) Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture; this study investigates (1) the impact of systematic (or bad) corruption and idiosyncratic (or good) corruption on e-government maturity; and (2) the moderating effects of national culture in terms of power distance, individualism, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance on the relationships of systematic and idiosyncratic corruption with electronic government (e-government) maturity. Based on publicly available archival data from 60 countries, for a cross-sectional period of 2004 to 2008, our results provided support for the hypothesized model. Specifically, while systematic corruption was negatively related with e-government maturity, idiosyncratic corruption was positively associated with it. Further, while the relationship of systematic corruption with e-government maturity was negatively moderated by uncertainty avoidance, the relationship of idiosyncratic corruption with e-government maturity was contingent on power distance in the negative direction, and on individualism, and masculinity in the positive directions. Our findings contribute to the theoretical discourse on e-government by not only understanding the differential impacts of corruption types on growth and maturity of e-government, but also by understanding how national culture affects the relationship of corruption with e-government maturity.
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