Organizing for Smart City Development: Research at the crossroads. Introduction to the Special Issue

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Organization Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1177/01708406231197815

Luca Mora, Francesco Paolo Appio, Nicolai J. Foss, David Arellano-Gault, Xiaoling Zhang

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Abstract

Worldwide, smart city projects have emerged as a response to urban crisis conditions with the aim of leveraging digital technologies for urban innovation and sustainable development. However, these projects involve complex organizational challenges that have received little attention in existing smart city research, particularly in the exploration of interorganizational collaboration. The disconnect between organization studies and smart city research means that these two knowledge fields have yet to maximize the valuable insights that each one can offer to the other. To address this gap, this Special Issue seeks to foster cross-fertilization. Elaborating on the contributions in our Special Issue, we present potential and actual research crossroads conceptual and theoretical arenas in which collaborative efforts between organization studies and smart city research can thrive. We aim to bridge knowledge gaps and generate mutual benefits by stimulating interdisciplinary encounters. This approach offers opportunities for empirical research that can expand organization studies and their theories while deepening our understanding of organizations, organizing, and the organized in smart city projects, thereby contributing to theoretical and practical advancements.

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组织智慧城市发展:十字路口的研究。特刊简介

在世界范围内，智慧城市项目的出现是为了应对城市危机，目的是利用数字技术促进城市创新和可持续发展。然而，这些项目涉及复杂的组织挑战，在现有的智慧城市研究中很少受到关注，特别是在探索组织间协作方面。组织研究和智慧城市研究之间的脱节意味着这两个知识领域尚未最大限度地发挥各自可以为对方提供的有价值的见解。为了弥补这一差距，本期特刊力求促进相互借鉴。在详细阐述特刊中的贡献时，我们提出了潜在的和实际的研究十字路口，概念和理论领域，在这些领域中，组织研究和智慧城市研究之间的合作努力可以蓬勃发展。我们的目标是通过促进跨学科的接触来弥合知识差距并产生互利。这种方法为实证研究提供了机会，可以扩展组织研究及其理论，同时加深我们对智慧城市项目中的组织、组织和被组织的理解，从而促进理论和实践的进步。

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期刊介绍： Organisation Studies (OS) aims to promote the understanding of organizations, organizing and the organized, and the social relevance of that understanding. It encourages the interplay between theorizing and empirical research, in the belief that they should be mutually informative. It is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which is open to contributions of high quality, from any perspective relevant to the field and from any country. Organization Studies is, in particular, a supranational journal which gives special attention to national and cultural similarities and differences worldwide. This is reflected by its international editorial board and publisher and its collaboration with EGOS, the European Group for Organizational Studies. OS publishes papers that fully or partly draw on empirical data to make their contribution to organization theory and practice. Thus, OS welcomes work that in any form draws on empirical work to make strong theoretical and empirical contributions. If your paper is not drawing on empirical data in any form, we advise you to submit your work to Organization Theory – another journal under the auspices of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) – instead.