Smart city technologies aim to address urban challenges by leveraging digital innovation to contribute to livability.However, their acceptance by citizens remains a critical challenge.Technology acceptance models such as the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) assess individual benefits, overlooking community-oriented motivations.This study proposes expanding UTAUT by introducing perceived public value (PPV) as a new dimension that reflects collective benefits that individuals perceive for their community.Drawing on public value theory, we synthesize a concept of public value and evaluate UTAUT's capability to reflect resulting public value dimensions.Our findings suggest that integrating PPV as additional dimension in UTAUT could enhance understanding of technology acceptance in the smart city context and lays the groundwork for empirical validation.This research contributes to both research and practice by advocating for the inclusion of public value considerations in smart city development, aiming for more sustainable urban development.

The aim of our study was to provide an update to the research field of critical success factors (CSFs) of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system projects.Therefore, we conducted two literature reviews, more specifically systematic reviews of relevant articles in different databases and among several international conference proceedings from mid-2012 to 2023.These two reviews serve as an update of previous analyses that we conducted covering the period from 1998 until mid-2012.In our current analysis, we identified 272 relevant paperssingle or multiple case studies, surveys, and literature reviews or articles from which CSFs can be derived.From these existing studies, we discovered 33 different CSFs for ERP projects.The top three factors identified are 1) Top management support and involvement, 2) Organizational fit of the ERP system, and 3) User training.Our analysis shows that the majority of important CSFs are organizational factors with a strategic perspective.Nevertheless, important technological CSFs should also be decisively considered in ERP projects.These CSFs must be coordinated and aligned with the organizational factors in order to contribute to the holistic success of the ERP project.

The increased digitalization of the economy and society has triggered drastic changes in companies and confronted them with enormous challenges.The consulting industry is also strongly affected by this digital transformation.In an exploratory study, we examined digitalization's impact on management consultancies in Germany and their use of digital technologies.In our article, we provide insights into which digital technologies are considered to be important for the different phases of consulting and how digitalization affects the work of management consultants.From the perspective of such consultants, we discuss the technologies currently in use and offer an outlook on their future importance based on an online survey.Our results reveal that many business consultancies already rely heavily on digitalization and use a variety of digital technologies in all phases of the consulting process.Although business consultancies currently use wellestablished technologies, they remain aware of the growing importance of modern technologies for the future of consulting services.

In their transition to smart cities, an increasing number of cities are pursuing strategies to improve efficiency of transport.One strategy is to achieve smart mobility, for which cities implement intelligent transport systems (ITS).Simultaneously, municipalities recognize their responsibility for creating a sustainable environment for citizens in the face of challenges like overpopulation, land shortage, and climate change.Interestingly, many ITS initiatives mainly focus on technical outcomes and overlook their impact on sustainability despite its key benefit for smart mobility.To fill this gap, we develop a framework for assessing the sustainability impact of ITS initiatives in this paper.We analyze the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations and relate them to various concepts of ITS to derive our framework.Thereby, our work bridges two fundamental perspectives for further research and supports decision-makers in choosing ITS initiatives that contribute to both smart mobility and sustainability.