Open Government: Development, Concept, and Future Research Directions

This study seeks to fill in open government research gaps by structuring and shedding light on the field of empirical open government research by means of a systematic literature review. In doing so, 64 empirical open government studies published in peer-reviewed journals in the period from 2000 to 2020 are analyzed based on their key topic, study type, research design, method of analysis, data collection and research perspective. Our findings reveal seven key topics and major gaps in empirical open government research, opening up new research avenues and identifying the most relevant unresolved research avenues.