Exploring the Smart City Adoption Process: Evidence from the Belgian urban context

Margherita, Emanuele Gabriel; Esposito, Giovanni; Escobar, Stefania  Denise; Crutzen, Nathalie

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Exploring the Smart City Adoption Process: Evidence from the Belgian urban context

Margherita, Emanuele Gabriel; Esposito, Giovanni; Escobar, Stefania Denise et al.

2020 • In Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development

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Keywords :

smart city development; socio-technical perspective

Abstract :

[en] In this position paper, we explore the adoption of a Smart City with a socio-technical perspective. A Smart city is a transformational technological process leading to profound modifications of existing urban regimes and infrastructure components. In this study, we consider a Smart City as a socio-technical system where the interplay between technologies and users ensures the sustainable development of smart city initiatives that improve the quality of life and solve important socio-economic problems. The adoption of a Smart City required a participative approach where users are involved during the adoption process to joint optimise both systems. Thus, we contribute to socio-technical research showing how a participative approach based on press relationships to facilitate information exchange between municipal actors and citizens worked as a success factor for the smart city adoption. We also discuss the limitations of this approach.

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General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory

Author, co-author :

Margherita, Emanuele Gabriel; Università degli Studi della Tuscia > Dipartimento di Economia, Ingegneria, Società e Impresa (DEIm)

Esposito, Giovanni ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > UER Management : Sustainable Strategy

Escobar, Stefania Denise; University of Bozen > Faculty of Economics and Management

Crutzen, Nathalie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > UER Management : Sustainable Strategy

Language :

English

Title :

Exploring the Smart City Adoption Process: Evidence from the Belgian urban context

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December 2020

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6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development

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from 08-06-2020 to 09-06-2020

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International

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Proceedings of 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development

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Peer reviewed

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