TY - JOUR A1 - Scholl, Hans Jochen A1 - Jurisch, Marlen A1 - Krcmar, Helmut A1 - Scholl, Margit T1 - Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government: The Case of Munich, Germany JF - International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) N2 - City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in “smart city” initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play impor-tant roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of “smart city,” which they then compared to Munich’s smart city-related program. While the practitioners’ definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners’ understanding of smartness. The authors por-tray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution. KW - ICT as core competency KW - interdepartmental collaboration KW - organizational redesign KW - process change KW - process streamlining KW - smart government Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-6692 SN - 2160-9926 VL - 3 IS - 4 ER -