Legal Issues for Electronic Documents Workflow Regulation

Abstract

Purpose ”“ The main purpose of the paper is to analyze the problems of legal regulation of relations in the field of electronic document management.
 Methodology/approach/design ”“ The paper employs methods of comparative law and analytical, which determine the possibility of integrating international standards for the regulation of electronic document flow.
 Findings ”“ Electronic document flow is becoming an integral part of the most diverse areas of economic activity of any enterprise. The document flow contains elements of the general law of regulation and reaffirms the necessity of following specific instructions. Its electronic form allows the information interchange between subjects of economical and legal activity. This defines the possibility of the formation of a separate branch of legal regulation in the document flow. The possibility of the structuring and correlation of an informational and another branch of the law for the aim of complex usage of an electronic document flow is viewed as a separate aspect.
 Practical implications ”“ Material of the article may be useful in matters of regulation of the legislative system of document management.
 Originality/value ”“ The novelty of the study is that the article examined in detail the mechanism of electronic document management in different countries.

Electronic records management in Tanzanian courts

“…Regarding inadequacy of funds, the findings have identified dependence on few funds sources to implement e-records management as the cause. The problem of lack of RF to foster e-record management seems to be one that is faced by many courts in developed (see Maroye et al, 2017) and developing countries (Mokhtar and Yusof, 2009; Kussainova et al, 2020; Borisova et al, 2020). The study also reveals negative attitudes towards e-records management among staff and insufficient support from top management as challenges.…”

“…Besides, prior literature has cited a number of factors that undermine effective management of e-records. For example, the absence of legislations, policies, lack of integrity, weak institutional capacity, the lack of effective personnel records management programme, and procedures to guide records management has been cited by many scholars (see Makwae, 2021; Asongwa, 2012; Maroye et al, 2017; Hamid et al, 2019; Mokhtar and Yusof, 2009; Kussainova et al, 2020; Borisova et al, 2020; Issa and Wamukoya, 2018). Judging from these scholars’ work, absence of e-records management regulatory frameworks (RF) such as policies is appears to be a global problem.…”

Electronic Document in the Context of International Economic and Legal Framework

“…A. Kussainova, D. Kussainov, B. Zhumagulov, Zh. Simtikov, and B. Zhangutin (2020) analyzed the interpretation of electronic documents in regulatory documents of different countries, as well as its impact on the recognition of such documents as valid.…”