This study by Amanda Girth, David Landsbergen and Doctoral Student Mariángeles Westover-Muñoz provides a new framework to identify how cities can select the appropriate governance rules to facilitate the political, financial, and operational sustainability of their IDEs, and derivatively, their smart city efforts.
Hongtao Yi investigates why various mechanisms of cooperation among local authorities are chosen using the theoretical lens of institutional collective action.
This study, published by Public Performance and Management Review, finds that contract managers who have had more rules training tend to believe that they have less autonomy and view the behaviors of others as unethical.
Jill Clark demonstrates that locally-facing firms are associated with greater levels of civic and political engagement compared with locally owned firms that sell their products to customers elsewhere.