How Can Digital Government Achieve"Holistic Smart Governance"?:Based on Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 31 Provinces,Municipalities and Autonomous Regions in China
[Purpose/significance]The construction of digital government in China is in a stage of rapid development,and it is of reference significance for the digital transformation of Chinese government to explore how the construction of digital government can pro-mote the realization of holistic smart governance.[Method/process]Based on the TOE framework,this paper takes 31 provinces,mu-nicipalities and autonomous regions in China as examples,and uses the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)method to find out how the organizational,technical and environmental conditions in the construction of digital government affect the realization of holistic smart governance and its specific impact path.[Result/conclusion]A single condition does not play a decisive role in the reali-zation of holistic smart governance,the organizational conditions play a fundamental role,and the technical and environmental conditions present the"environmental co-construction"and"technology-led"development models according to the resource endowments of each region.The development level of holistic smart governance in China presents the differences between the eastern,central and western re-gions,shows a slow diffusion trend from east to west.
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