@article{alaaraj_wati_ibrahim, 
  title={The Influence of E-government Practices on the Public Trust in Lebanon}, 
  abstractNote={The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the influence of e-government practices on the public trust in Lebanon. It presents a theoretical research framework to understand these relationships supported by literature review from recent studies. A quantitative methodology was applied and a survey was conducted on 600 SMEs in the Capital Beirut, where self-administered questionnaires were distributed among managers and employees resulting 94 percent usable response rate. Based on the diffusion of innovation theory (DOI) and institutional trust and trustworthiness theory, the theoretical research framework was developed and four hypotheses were proposed in which two were accepted and two were rejected through analyzing the data by SPSS and SEM using AMOS. The main findings indicate that e-government practices have a positive and significant influence on public trust in general but in particular, public trust is positively and significantly influenced by e-service but not by e-administration and e-procurement. Implications and limitations of the study are also discussed where future studies are recommended to extend the empirical research geographically and highlight more on the relationship between government and public attributes in developing countries. Moreover, different methodologies can be applied to obtain Varity of responses which in turn in rich the literature.}, 
  author={Alaaraj and Wati and Ibrahim}
  }