Preface

List of Contributors

1. Introduction

Kim Viborg Andersen

Section I: Governmental Intervention and Implementation of EDI

2. Government Intervention in the Diffusion of EDI: Goals and Conflicts

Jan Damsgaard

Kalle Lyytinen

3. Societal Factors and the Diffusion of EDI

Eileen Trauth

Frank Derksen

Hein Mevissen

4. EDI in the Public Sector: Building on Lessons from the Private Sector

Morten Falch

5. Stakeholder Analysis in Health Interorganizational Systems: The case of NHSnet

Athanasia Pouloudi

Section II: Organizational Transformation Using EDI

6. A British EDI Initiative in the Health Sector

Tony Cornford

7. Government and Private Sector Perspectives of EDI: The Case of TradeNet

Margaret Tan

8. Reengineering with EDI: A Trojan Horse in Circumventing Non-tariff Barriers to Trade

Akemi Chatfield

Niels Bjorn-Andersen

Section III: EDI in Local Government

9. EDI in the Danish Health Sector: A Public Administration Perspective on a Regional Health Data Network

Kim Viborg Andersen

10. EDI and Public Procurement: How EDI Affects the Working Procedures of Public Procurement

Karin Bryntse

11. EDI, Information Processing and Issues of Governance: The Informational Character of UK Local Government

Alan Southern

Section IV: Societal Issues of EDI

12. EDI and Internet Data Security: For the Courts, Criminal Justice Agencies and the Public

John H. Davenport

13. EDI in the Public Sector: The Danish INFO-Society 2000 Plan and the Democratic Route to Informate the Public Sector

Mogens Kuhn Pedersen

14. Conclusions: An Analysis of the Contributions on EDI and Data Networking in the Public Sector

Kim Viborg Andersen

References

Subject Index