| Title |
Governing in the digital age: The emergence of dynamic smart urban governance modes |
| ID_Doc |
40348 |
| Authors |
Przeybilovicz, E; Cunha, MA |
| Title |
Governing in the digital age: The emergence of dynamic smart urban governance modes |
| Year |
2024 |
| Published |
Government Information Quarterly, 41, 1 |
| DOI |
10.1016/j.giq.2023.101907 |
| Abstract |
There is growing concern that implementing effective governance constitutes a significant element in cities becoming 'smart' due to its multidisciplinarity, complexity of urban challenges and multi-stakeholder involvement. It is assumed that in smart city initiatives, new governance modes arise through the interplay of technological artefacts and political and social factors, viewed through a sociotechnical perspective. We also argue that traditional urban governance modes help explain emerging modes and the nature of citizen-government interactions. Thus, a combination of the sociotechnical view with the modes of urban governance as a theoretical approach was used to understand the dynamics of emerging governance modes in smart city initiatives. Two cases were studied using a longitudinal qualitative case study and temporal bracketing analysis for an indepth understanding. Our findings evidenced that the configuration of the elements, governance mode, information and communication technology (ICT) and types of citizen-government interaction varies from one initiative to another and changes over time, across multiple sociotechnical networks in practice, which leads to emerging new governance modes. We highlight that a new understanding of smart urban governance for sustainable development in the digital age needs to be developed as a dynamic process. Moreover, we identified two emerging governance modes and proposed a dynamic approach to investigate smart urban governance in other contexts. |
| Author Keywords |
Smart city; Urban governance; Sociotechnical networks; Smart urban governance; Dynamic |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:001164114700001 |
| WoS Category |
Information Science & Library Science |
| Research Area |
Information Science & Library Science |
| PDF |
http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:9397/Governing_in_the_digital_age.pdf
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