Meta-analysis of barriers to the deployment of e-government in Iran

In recent decades, we are facing developments and new achievements in information technology usages in various areas of life every day. Due to the pressure of the current dynamic and turbulent business environment, organizations should change their traditional methods. Therefore, electronic government establishment in organizations of our country is highly important in order to utilize recent advances in information technology and it‘s opportunities. On the other hand, due to several studies regarding electronic government and facing kind of dispersed information in this area doing combinational studies which would provide researchers with studies related to this subject in a scientific and systematic way is highly mattered. This study reviews 12 thesis and 8 article aiming for merging quantitative results of studies related to electronic government establishment in Iranian organizations by using meta-analysis method and comprehensive meta-analysis software (CMA2). A total of 20 studies are selected and reviewed based on Inclusive criteria. Results of meta-analysis regarding barriers to electronic government establishment of 17 variables represent that the studies related to barriers to electronic government establishment suggest that Organizational barriers with the effect-size of 0/943, Strategic barriers with the effect-size of 0/886 and Legal barriers with the effect-size of 0/735, Nature barriers with the effect-size of 0/703 and Managerial barriers with the effect-size of 0/702 have the greatest preventive effect on electronic government establishment.