Managing Smart Cities (eBook)

This book adopts the managerial perspective to the study of smart cities. As such, this book is a necessary addition to the existing body of literature on smart cities. The chapters included in this book prove the case that transformation of cities to smart cities is a function of effective and efficient management practices implemented at diverse levels of smart cities. While advances in information and communication technology (ICT) are crucial, it is the ability to apply ICT consciously and efficiently that drives the transformation of cities to smart cities in a manner conducive to cities' sustainability and resilience.

The book covers three sets of interconnected topics:

• Management and decision-making for urban design and infrastructure development
• Management and decision-making in context of smart cities development
• Ways of promoting and ensuring participation, representation and co-creation in smart cities

These three groups of topics offer a great opportunity to acquire a clear, direct, and practice-driven knowledge and understanding of how effective management allows ICT-enhanced tools and applications to change smart cities, possibly making them smarter.

Anna Visvizi, Ph.D. (dr hab.), economist and political scientist, editor, researcher and political consultant with extensive experience in academia, think-tank and government sectors, including the OECD. A practiced team-worker, researcher, analyst and lecturer, Professor Visvizi's expertise covers issues pertinent to the intersection of politics, economics and ICT. This translates in her research on applied aspects of ICT, especially AI and blockchain, in such domains as smart cities/smart villages, geopolitics, and business management. In her work, Dr. Visvizi places emphasis on engaging academia, the think-tank sector and decision-makers in dialogue to ensure well-founded and evidence-driven policymaking. Professor Visvizi is the Editor-in-Chief of Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (#TGPPP).

Orlando Troisi, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Innovation Systems (DISA-MIS), University of Salerno (Unisa), Italy. He is a member of the research center for innovation and sustainable management (SIMAS-Unisa). His research interests cover services marketing and management, strategic and innovation management and information technology. He has published several articles in international journals (e.g., Industrial Marketing Management, Marketing Theory, Land Use Policy, Journal of Behavior and Information Technology, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal). At present, he is reviewer for several international journals. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Business and Management.