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作者

Margarida Rodrigues;Mário Franco;Cidália Oliveira;Ana Pinto Borges;Rui Jorge Silva

来源

CITIES,Vol.135,Issue1,Article 104241

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英文

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作者单位

Department of Management of the Instituto Europeu de Estudos Superiores de Fafe, CEFAGE-UBI Research Center, Univewrsidade da Beira Interior, Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal;Universidade da Beira Interior, Department of Management and Economics, CEFAGE-UBI Research Center, Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal;REMIT - Research on Economics Management and Information Technologies, Universidade Portucalense, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal;Department of Management, University of Minho, 4704-553 Braga, Portugal;CIDI – IESF - Instituto de Estudos Superiores de Fafe, 4824-909 Fafe, Portugal;ISAG - Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão & Research Center in Business Sciences and Tourism (CICET – FCVC) & Research Centre in Organizations, Markets and Industrial Management (COMEGI), Portugal;University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro –UTAD, CETRAD Research Center, Vila Real, Portugal;Department of Management of the Instituto Europeu de Estudos Superiores de Fafe, CEFAGE-UBI Research Center, Univewrsidade da Beira Interior, Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal;Universidade da Beira Interior, Department of Management and Economics, CEFAGE-UBI Research Center, Estrada do Sineiro, 6200-209 Covilhã, Portugal;REMIT - Research on Economics Management and Information Technologies, Universidade Portucalense, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal;Department of Management, University of Minho, 4704-553 Braga, Portugal;CIDI – IESF - Instituto de Estudos Superiores de Fafe, 4824-909 Fafe, Portugal;ISAG - Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão & Research Center in Business Sciences and Tourism (CICET – FCVC) & Research Centre in Organizations, Markets and Industrial Management (COMEGI), Portugal;University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro –UTAD, CETRAD Research Center, Vila Real, Portugal;School of Maritime Economics and Management, Dalian Maritime University, China;School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;School of Public Policy & Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China;Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia;Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padua, Italy;Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy;Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;University of Bucharest, School of Sociology and Social Work, Bucharest, Romania;Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Interdisciplinary Centre for Data Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania;Hang Lung Center for Real Estate, Department of Construction Management, Tsinghua University, China

摘要

The pandemic dramatically altered the lives of people in their cities of residence and caused profound effects on both. The urgency to mitigate the pandemic has generated severe effects on society in general, such as economic paralysis, the annulment of social conviviality, the threat to employment and the non-existence of various accessibilities. However, cities should not disappear and have seen a huge adaptation to technologies and an unprecedented digital transformation coupled with good governance practices in order to minimise the effects of these disruptive blockages. Thus, the objective of this study is the measurement of smart performance in cities in pandemic times. To respond to this objective, the composite index of Rodrigues & Franco (2019) for city intelligence based on the subdimensions governance and ICT was adopted, thus following the quantitative methodology and resorting to secondary data. Moreover, this index measures the adjective smartness distinct from smart, whose adoption by cities provides a smart way to solve their daily problems. The sample covered the 308 Portuguese cities and towns, commonly known as municipalities. The results obtained still show some weaknesses to be overcome by municipalities in the future, if they opt for a continued commitment to governance models based on ICT, although the future path is challenging, so that the returns of these strategies are converted into effective offers of hard and soft amenities to citizens, in which urban networks play a key role, with exponential effects on the new demands of citizens regarding their quality of life, given that the pandemic has manifestly changed their behaviours and lifestyles. Finally, the final considerations, implications for theory and practice, limitations and future research agenda are presented.