The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities
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The strategic, organizational, and entrepreneurial evolution of smart cities Francesco Schiavone 1,2 Marcello Risitano 1
& Francesco
Paolo Appio 3 & Luca Mora 4 &
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract This present editorial illustrates the recent evolution of strategy, organization and entrepreneurship in smart city. Referring to strategy, integrated smart city strategies aim to connect the physical space of cities with the economic and social sphere – a connection that although clearly existing, has always been troublesome for scientists and policy makers. Referring to organization, the interplay between theorizing and researching in the context of smart cities and will offer an improved understanding of how organization theories apply to complex ICT-related urban transformations and the societal challenge of enabling smart city development. Referring to entrepreneurship, a synchronization among the actors is necessary to make entrepreneurial activities flourishing and conducive of a ‘smarter’ smartification of cities. The editorial ends by providing a short summary of the six articles included in the special issue. Keywords Smart cities . Strategy . Organization . Entrepreneurship . Future research
* Francesco Schiavone [email protected] Francesco Paolo Appio [email protected] Luca Mora [email protected] Marcello Risitano [email protected]
1
Department of Management Studies & Quantitative Methods, University of Naples Parthenope, Via Generale Parisi 13, 80132 Naples, Italy
2
Paris School of Business, Rue Nationale, 59 Paris, France
3
SKEMA Business School, Université Côte d’Azur (GREDEG), Nice, France
4
Edinburgh Napier University, unit 4, 10 Bankhead Terrace, Edinburgh EH11 4DY, UK
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
Introduction Urban Services and Technology and New Urban Agenda are two interrelated policy documents that the United Nations released in 2016 and 2017, respectively. These two documents embody the ethos of the smart city concept envisioned by the UN Member States, who agreed to adopt the New Urban Agenda at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, on 20 October 2016. Before being released, to make sure that the vision for more sustainable urban future the Agenda puts forward could be spread wide, its contents have been translated in more than 30 languages. This vision is structured by means of an extensive list of policy recommendations on how to make urban environments become completely sustainable entities, from a cultural, socio-economic, and environmental point of view. Among these recommendations, the UN member states suggest expediting sustainable transitions in urban contexts require adopting a smart-city approach (triggering the input that digital technologies can offer into solving urban challenges and improving the sustainability of urban service provision (Mora and Deakin 2019). Adopting a smart-city app
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