“…In fact, e-Government initiatives have led to comparable impacts like e-Commerce initiatives in the private sector, in that they have been found instrumental for increasing government-internal effectiveness and efficiency as well as external service levels and responsiveness [30,26,17]. Also, an increase in collaboration and particularly the sharing of knowledge and information has been observed in the course of e-Government initiatives [31], which, however, was influenced by a number of interacting factors such as context-embeddedness, practiceembeddedness, organization, and technology (ibid., also [32,33]). Beyond the sharing of knowledge, interoperation of application and integration of information and processes have taken center stage in eGovernment [34][35][36] on national as well as on inter-and transnational levels [37].…”