Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (forthcoming 2006). Firstgov.gov: The road to success of the US government’s web portal. In: Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor and David Lazer (Eds.), From E-Gov to I-Gov: Electronic Government in the 21st Century. Boston: MIT Press.

Lazer, David and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf (forthcoming 2006). It takes a network to build a network. In: Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor and David Lazer (Eds.), From E-Gov to I-Gov: Electronic Government in the 21st Century. Boston: MIT Press.

Lazer, David and Maria Christina Binz-Scharf (forthcoming 2005). Information sharing in digital government projects. Report for IBM Endowment for the Business of Government. Arlington, VA: IBM Endowment.

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2005). Collaboration, communication, and control: The effects of ICT-enabled innovation projects on informal organizational structures. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05), pp. 248-256. [download paper]

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2003). Bureaucratic networks or networked bureaucracies? Knowledge sharing in ICT-enabled innovation projects. NCDG Working Paper No. 03-012. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. [download paper]

Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina (2003). Exploration and exploitation: Toward a theory of knowledge sharing in digital government projects. Dissertation Nr. 2828, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen. [request dissertation]

Schedler, Kuno and Maria Christina Scharf (2001). Exploring the interrelations between e-government and the New Public Management. In: Schmid, Beat, Stanoevska, Katarina, & Tschammer, Volker (Eds.), Towards the E-Society. E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government. Boston: Kluwer, pp. 775-788. [download paper]

Schedler, Kuno, Maria Christina Scharf, Bernhard Schmidt, and Lukas Summermatter (2001). An evaluation model for the development of e-government [in German]. IDT Working Paper, St. Gallen.

Schedler, Kuno and Maria Christina Scharf (2000). Down there and up here is just a mouse click apart [in German]. Die Weltwoche Nr. 33, 17.8.2000, p. 17.

Smolders, Wim and Maria Christina Scharf (1999). Own account transport of goods by road in the European Union. Report for the International Road Transport Union (IRU). Geneva: IRU.

Scharf, Maria Christina and Joop Kraay (1997). European framework for public campaigns: A feasibility study for a European cooperation in the field of public road safety campaigns. Brussels: ERSF.

Scharf, Maria Christina (1996). Austria in the European Union: Transit traffic – a critical profile [in Italian]. Master thesis, Bocconi University, Milan.

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“Electronic communication in a geographically dispersed community of forensic scientists”, poster presented at the Digital Government Conference of the National Science Foundation (dg.o2005), Atlanta, GA, May 15-18, 2005 (with David Lazer and Ines Mergel).

“Searching for answers: Tracing the paths of knowledge in a dispersed community”, paper presented at the International Social Network Conference (Sunbelt XXV), Redondo Beach, CA, February 16-21, 2005 (with David Lazer and Ines Mergel).

“Collaboration, communication, and control: The effects of ICT-enabled innovation projects on informal organizational structures”, paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Big Island, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2005.

“Knowledge sharing in IT-enabled government innovation projects”, paper presented at the 26th Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Atlanta, GA, October 28-30, 2004.

“Knowledge sharing in public sector organizations – the case of digital government projects”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, LA, August 6-11, 2004.

“Collaboration, communication, and control: The effects of ICT-enabled innovation projects on informal organizational structures”, paper presented at the 20th EGOS Colloquium, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2004.

“Exploration and exploitation: Knowledge sharing in digital government projects”, paper presented at the Digital Government Conference of the National Science Foundation (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004.

“DNA and the criminal justice system: A web-based community of practice”, poster presented at the Digital Government Conference of the National Science Foundation (dg.o2004), Seattle, WA, May 24-26, 2004 (with David Lazer and Birgit Rabl).

“Knowledge sharing in innovation projects”, presentation at the ARG seminar, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, April 7, 2004.

“Knowing who knows what: The role of knowledge transfer in implementing digital government projects”, poster presented at the 25th Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November 6-8, 2003. [abstract]

“Knowledge flows and the use of Internet-related information technologies in public sector organizations: A comparative case study”, paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 27-31, 2003. [abstract] [request full paper]

“Conception and implementation of digital government projects: The role of knowledge transfer”, paper presented at the Digital Government Conference of the National Science Foundation (dg.o2003), Boston, MA, May 18-21, 2003. [abstract] [slides] [request full paper]

“Knowledge networks in digital government projects”, paper presented at the International Social Network Conference (Sunbelt XXIII), Cancun, Mexico, February 11-16, 2003. [abstract] [slides]

“Exploring the interrelations between e-government and the New Public Management”, paper presented at the First IFIP Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Government (I3E 2001), Zurich, October 3-5, 2001 (with Kuno Schedler).

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“The evolution of knowledge networks“, guest lecture, Knowledge Management (STM-118), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 23, 2004.

“The evolution of knowledge networks“, invited talk, Department of Economics, City College of New York (CUNY), New York, March 18, 2004.

“The evolution of knowledge networks“, invited talk, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, February 24, 2004.

“Knowledge management in public sector organizations: Necessities, concepts and experience“, invited talk, International Conference on Knowledge Management in Public Administration, Academy for Public Management, Munich, Germany, April 26, 2001.

“Benchmarks for electronic government“, invited talk, Seminar on the Development of Electronic Information Infrastructures, University of Konstanz, Germany, Feb. 9, 2001.

“Knowledge management: A concept for public institutions“, invited talk, IDT Conference on Management of Knowledge in Public Institutions, Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 31, 2000.

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