Design Science Approach to Build a Customer Satisfaction Theoretical Framework to Evaluate E‑Government Services

Abstract

Abstract: The vast majority of the literature on E‑Government evaluation tends to focus on benchmarking of e‑government around the world and performance measurements of customer satisfactions with the use of quantitative rather than qualitative measurements. In this paper, we seek to address this problem by introducing a design science approach to build a new qualitative theoretical framework, namely, return on investment (ROI) vs return on relationship (ROR), as an evaluation tool, to assess E‑Government services by classifying customer experiences into categories of customer satisfactions. Our results help government to identify strategic focus areas that need attentions and allocation of funds to improve customer satisfactions.