Factors for collaboration amongst smart city stakeholders: A local government perspective

Collaborative ecosystems; Contingency theory; Digital government; Local public administrations; Quadruple-helix framework; Smart city; Sociology and Political Science

Abstract :

[en] A collaborative ecosystem of diverse stakeholders is seen as critical in smart cities for solving complex public problems and overcoming socio-technical hurdles. However, little is known about the factors that may increase collaboration amongst smart city stakeholders. Through a digital government lens, we first elaborate the nature of multi-stakeholder collaboration in the smart city. Then, we adopt a contingency approach to unpack the factors that affect the intensity of collaboration between the stakeholders in the smart city ecosystem. To characterize the ecosystem, we use the quadruple-helix framework. Through the perspective of the local government, we derive hypotheses on whether certain factors lead to more intensive collaboration, which are tested on a sample of Belgian municipalities. Our findings reveal the importance of smart city strategies for intensifying collaboration between the local government and stakeholders in the ecosystem. Moreover, we also find that for large ecosystems, a smart city manager or department may facilitate collaboration amongst stakeholders. Taken together, our findings indicate that there are certain configurational approaches to increasing collaboration in smart cities, which will depend on the context of a city.

Research center :

HEC Recherche. Sustainable performance: tax, audit and accounting - ULiège

Disciplines :

Business & economic sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Clement, Jessica ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Recherche > HEC Recherche: Strategy & Performance for the Society

Manjon, Miguel; Smart City Institute at the HEC School of Management, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium ; ECO-SOS Department of Economics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

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

Language :

English

Title :

Factors for collaboration amongst smart city stakeholders: A local government perspective

Publication date :

12 July 2022

Journal title :

Government Information Quarterly

ISSN :

0740-624X

eISSN :

1872-9517

Publisher :

Elsevier Ltd

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Issue :

Pages :

101746

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Development Goals :

11. Sustainable cities and communities

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