Identifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan

Objective: Policymaking in the field of urban management requires understanding the mental models and patterns of managers, experts and those involved in this field. The purpose of this research was to identify and interpret mental models of urban managers in Hamadan city towards a smart city. Metho...

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Autores principales: Hamid Rabani Arshad, Ali Asghari Sarem, Alireza Slambolchi, Mehdi Saeedi
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4bc59316d454467d821f096f0e6706ca2021-11-14T05:56:24ZIdentifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan2008-58772423-534210.22059/jipa.2020.301347.2736https://doaj.org/article/4bc59316d454467d821f096f0e6706ca2020-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jipa.ut.ac.ir/article_81611_4d1fc0a6cc16462627844c1a1d6304ff.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2008-5877https://doaj.org/toc/2423-5342Objective: Policymaking in the field of urban management requires understanding the mental models and patterns of managers, experts and those involved in this field. The purpose of this research was to identify and interpret mental models of urban managers in Hamadan city towards a smart city. Methods: The method of this research is the Q methodology. The participants of the present study were 25 managers and urban experts in Hamadan who have high influence and influence in decision making in the metropolitan area. They were selected through purposeful and non-probable sampling. The discourse space of the present study was gathered from various sources such as interviewing 11 managers and urban experts and literature. Results: After evaluating and summarizing the concourse, 204 short sentences were selected as Q samples. After a survey of experts, a total of 42 sentences were selected as examples of Q samples. After creating the terms of the concourse, they interviewed them with Q methodology. After collecting the data from Q sorting, this data was analyzed by SPSS software version 25 with Q analysis method and identified 11 distinct mental patterns among participants of the research on the smart city which (77.32) per cent of variance Explained the whole. Conclusion: These 11 subjective patterns are named, respectively, in the names of "promising macro", "pivotal advocates", "pivotal advocates", "urban planners", "justice-oriented realists", "law-oriented cultures", "pro Upgrading strategies", "scientific developers"," extroverts interested in agility", "unpriced economists" and eventually "environmental advocates" were named and the importance and prioritization of identified cases of the smart city based on the mental patterns achieved face Took In the end, according to the interpretation of the mental models, solutions have been proposed to accelerate urban intelligenceHamid Rabani ArshadAli Asghari SaremAlireza SlambolchiMehdi SaeediUniversity of Tehranarticlesmart citymental patternsq methodologyurban managersurban policy makinghamedanPolitical institutions and public administration (General)JF20-2112FAمدیریت دولتی, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 494-527 (2020)
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topic smart city
mental patterns
q methodology
urban managers
urban policy making
hamedan
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
spellingShingle smart city
mental patterns
q methodology
urban managers
urban policy making
hamedan
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
Hamid Rabani Arshad
Ali Asghari Sarem
Alireza Slambolchi
Mehdi Saeedi
Identifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan
description Objective: Policymaking in the field of urban management requires understanding the mental models and patterns of managers, experts and those involved in this field. The purpose of this research was to identify and interpret mental models of urban managers in Hamadan city towards a smart city. Methods: The method of this research is the Q methodology. The participants of the present study were 25 managers and urban experts in Hamadan who have high influence and influence in decision making in the metropolitan area. They were selected through purposeful and non-probable sampling. The discourse space of the present study was gathered from various sources such as interviewing 11 managers and urban experts and literature. Results: After evaluating and summarizing the concourse, 204 short sentences were selected as Q samples. After a survey of experts, a total of 42 sentences were selected as examples of Q samples. After creating the terms of the concourse, they interviewed them with Q methodology. After collecting the data from Q sorting, this data was analyzed by SPSS software version 25 with Q analysis method and identified 11 distinct mental patterns among participants of the research on the smart city which (77.32) per cent of variance Explained the whole. Conclusion: These 11 subjective patterns are named, respectively, in the names of "promising macro", "pivotal advocates", "pivotal advocates", "urban planners", "justice-oriented realists", "law-oriented cultures", "pro Upgrading strategies", "scientific developers"," extroverts interested in agility", "unpriced economists" and eventually "environmental advocates" were named and the importance and prioritization of identified cases of the smart city based on the mental patterns achieved face Took In the end, according to the interpretation of the mental models, solutions have been proposed to accelerate urban intelligence
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author Hamid Rabani Arshad
Ali Asghari Sarem
Alireza Slambolchi
Mehdi Saeedi
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Ali Asghari Sarem
Alireza Slambolchi
Mehdi Saeedi
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title Identifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan
title_short Identifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan
title_full Identifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan
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title_full_unstemmed Identifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan
title_sort identifying and interpreting the city manager's mental patterns towards the smart city: a q research in hamadan
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