scholarly journals Smart City Collaboration: A Review and an Agenda for Establishing Sustainable Collaboration

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9189
Author(s):  
David E. Mills ◽  
Iman Izadgoshasb ◽  
Steven G. Pudney
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Smart City ◽  
City Government ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
City Governments ◽  
The Public

Collaboration is problematic in the public sector, yet many smart city theorists advocate relationships fully dependent upon collaboration to address the intense complexity encountered by city governments and achieve city objectives of quality of life, efficiency, effectiveness, and economic and environmental sustainability. Skeptical, we inductively drew together the widely dispersed theoretical tenets of smart city collaboration into a framework of collaborative relationships and tested this framework using secondary evidence as to practice in greater Amsterdam. Mostly authentic collaborative relationships were explicated. Theory is extended by clarifying the roles of actors, especially the role of city government as actor and steward of the collaborative ecosystem. Future research should unpack the factors that impact the sustainability of smart city collaborations.

scholarly journals Beauty and Elegance: Value Co-Creation in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402093253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Majeed ◽  
Zhimin Zhou ◽  
Haywantee Ramkissoon
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Emotional Attachment ◽  
Mediating Role

This study presents an emerging trend in medical tourism, cosmetic surgery tourism (CST). We explore tourists’ perceptions of CST for medical service quality as an antecedent to tourists’ emotional attachment, trust, and intentions to visit, which is underexplored in CST. This study examines the mediating role of value co-creation in influencing behaviors of CST-seeking tourists to experience a better quality of life. Using a sample drawn from 279 tourists, comprised of Australian, Japanese, and Chinese nationalities at two international airports in China, findings show that perceived medical service quality positively influences tourists’ emotional attachment, trust, and intentions to visit directly and through the mediating role of value co-creation across the three nationalities. CST-seeking tourists’ inputs in value co-creation may positively influence their behaviors, which are vital antecedents to promoting CST business. Implications for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Are Smart Innovation Ecosystems Really Seeking to Meet Citizens’ Needs? Insights from the Stakeholders’ Vision on Smart City Strategy Implementation

Smart Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Agbali ◽  
Claudia Trillo ◽  
Isa Ali Ibrahim ◽  
Yusuf Arayici ◽  
Terrence Fernando
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Innovation Ecosystems

The concept of a smart city is becoming the leading paradigm worldwide. Consequently, a creative mix of emerging technologies and open innovation is gradually becoming the defining element of smart city evolution, changing the ways in which city administrators are organizing their services and development globally. Thus, the smart city concept is becoming extremely relevant on the agendas of policy-makers as a development strategy for enhancing the quality of life of the citizen and improving the sustainability goals of their cities. Despite of the relevance of the topic, still few studies investigate how open innovation shapes the way cities become smarter or focus on the experiences of professionals to understand the concept of a smart city and its implementation. This paper fills this gap and analyzes the processes for building effective smart cities by integrating the different perspectives of smart innovations and using the core components of smart cities according to a conceptual framework developed in previous research. In so doing, it provides useful insights for smart city stakeholders in adopting social and technological innovation to improve the global competitiveness of their cities. The empirical dataset allows examining how “smart cities” are being implemented in Manchester (UK), and in Boston, Massachusetts, and San Diego City (United States of America (USA)), including archival data and in-depth interviews with core smart city stakeholders who are involved in smart city projects and programs across the cases. Results from empirical data suggest that the conceptualization of smart cities across the cases is similar with a strong emphasis on social and technological innovation aimed at addressing municipal challenges in the core sub-systems of the cities, which include mobility, environmental sustainability, entrepreneurial development, quality of life, and social cohesion. The results also reveal benefits and challenges relating to smart innovation ecosystems across the cases and the future directions of their diffusion.

scholarly journals Investigating the Mediatory Role of Hope and Shame in the Relationship between Caregiver Burden and Quality of Life of Patients with Cancer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Touraj Shahvand ◽  
Mehdi Reza Sarafraz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Caregiver Burden ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
World Health ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Caregiving Burden ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Objective Patients suffering from cancer need to receive care from their family; however, their family caregivers do this without preparation or training, so their involvement in patients’ care results in a caregiving burden that may affect patient’s hope and quality of life (QOL). Methods This study examines the effect of caregiving burden on the QOL of cancer patients (n = 100) with the mediatory role of hope and shame. To achieve this, Persian versions of Zarit Burden Interview, the World Health Organization QOL, Herth Hope Index, and Guilt and Shame Proneness Scale were used. Meanwhile, path regression analysis was implemented to analyze the relationship between caregiving burden and QOL. Results The results implied a relation among caregiver burden, hope, and QOL of patients diagnosed with cancer. It was found that there is a direct and negative relationship between caregiver burden and hope. In addition, there was an indirect and positive relationship between caregiver burden and QOL. Hope and QOL also had a high correlation. Besides, it was shown that there was a negative relationship between the shame experienced by patients and their hope and QOL. Conclusion caregiver burden was proved to be influential and negatively affected the factor for the QOL. Besides, patients’ hope decreases while caregiving burden increases; this will in turn affect patients’ recovery and their physical, mental, and cognitive functions. This study provides a foundation for future research in this critical area for oncology.

scholarly journals Fuzzy Logic Methods to Evaluate the Quality of Life in the Regions of Ecuador

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Martin ◽  
Christian Stalin Viñán
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Health System ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
City Government ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Social

<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The aim of this paper is to propose a methodological framework that calculates a synthetic indicator of satisfaction of citizens of the nine geographical areas of planning and development of Ecuador (zones).</p><p><strong>Methodology/Approach:</strong> The methodology is based on fuzzy logic and the degree of similarity to ideal solutions. The information is obtained through the application of a structured survey based on the European Social Survey to the Ecuadorian society. The analysis is based on eight different dimensions of satisfaction, namely: (1) Life; (2) Economy; (3) City Government; (4) Transparency; (5) Education; (6) Health System; (7) Roads; and (8) National Government.</p><p><strong>Findings:</strong> The results obtained help different stakeholders to have important insights about how the citizens’ quality of life and satisfaction depend to some extent on important public services that form the pillars of the social welfare, education and health system. However, our results also suggest that other areas of Ecuador can also benefit from the improvement of the policies developed by the local governments.</p><p><strong>Research Limitation/implication:</strong> An important research limitation is based on the limited number of segment variables used in the study, the geographical zones. Thus, an important venue for future research can be envisaged including other interesting traits analyzed by other scholars, like access to the internet, the social class or the size of the city.</p><p><strong>Originality/Value of paper:</strong> The analysis of individual satisfaction and citizens’ quality of life is paramount by the existing interdependence with social cohesion that exists nowadays in Ecuador.</p>

scholarly journals Smart Cities Marketing and Its Conceptual Grounds

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Anita Maček ◽  
Rasto Ovin ◽  
Urška Starc-Peceny
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Management ◽  
Endogenous Growth Theory ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Smart Communities ◽  
Changing Role

AbstractThe most frequent definition of the smart city in the literature defines it as a developed urban area that creates sustainable economic development and high quality of life. Therefore, a city should always be capable of identifying and effectively resolving its key development challenges in order to improve the quality of life of its citizens. Regarding economics approach, the authors rely on endogenous growth theory derived from Arrow. The authors explore the role of smart city management and governance, which will have to combine the need for capital with the need to ensure the environment that this capital will enhance modern urban producing factors. Hence, the authors discuss communication aspects and the importance of the evolution toward smart communities, where the idea is not on making places smart anymore, but rather focus on humans and their needs. For an emerging smart city, market built up of smaller cities and municipalities describes the changing role of marketing and the shift of roles in its processes in order to show the urge to become familiar with the spirit of open innovation and rethink marketing strategy in this emerging reality.

scholarly journals Third-Generation Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateja Mihinjac ◽  
Gregory Saville
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Infrastructure

This paper advances crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) theory and practice by introducing a holistic and integrated crime prevention theory called Third-Generation CPTED. We use Third-Generation CPTED to expand both the situational focus of traditional CPTED and the social ecology/neighbourhood focus of Second-Generation CPTED, by creating a new theory that integrates human motivation and aspirations within a neighbourhood Liveability Hierarchy. Central to our theory is the planning concept of liveability and, because safety from crime, fear, and victimization is such an integral part of quality of life, we present two underlying themes on which liveability depends: public health and sustainability. We propose some theoretical assumptions and propositions that underpin the theory and suggest areas for future research. Our contention is that a holistic and integrative Third-Generation CPTED elevates liveability from the role of basic infrastructure and habitat to providing residents with opportunities to enhance their own personal aspirations and improve their quality of life.

scholarly journals BREACH OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT AND QUALITY OF LIFE; PSYCHOSOMATIC STRAIN AS MEDIATOR AND POWER DISTANCE AS MODERATOR

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asad
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Direction ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

This study empirically examined the impact of breach of psychological contract on employees’ quality of life via the mediating mechanism of psychosomatic strain, while facilitating effect of power distance was also examined. Data were collected from a sample of 183 employees using a questionnaire. Results confirm that the breach of psychological contract declines employees’ quality of life, while mediating role of psychosomatic strain in this particular relationship was also established. Contrary to expectations, power distance does not act as a moderating variable. Implications, limitation and future research direction are discussed.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Administrasi Perpajakan, Kualitas Layanan Fiskus, Terhadap Perilaku Wajib Pajak Dan Kepatuhan Wajib Pajak (Studi Pada Wajib Pajak Badan Di Kantor Pelayanan Pajak Kota Malang Selatan 2015)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yusril ◽  
M Awaluddin
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tax Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

The research was motivated by the demands of the increasing government revenues, especially in the sector of taxation, both form all repair and fundamental change in all aspects of taxation. One of them is the demans on taxpayer compliance. Taxpayer compliance in implementing the tax obligations can not be separated from the role of the tax administration system that has been determined by the government and also the attitude of the public taxpayer itself. In addition, one of the efforts that are not less important is the government’s efforts in improving taxpayer satisfaction through improved quality of service performed by the tax authorities which is expected to have an impact on taxpayer compliance. This study aims to determine the effect of the tax administration and the quality of service performed by tax authorities to taxpayer compliance is mediated by the behavior of taxpayer. This research is explanatory reseach using a quantitative approach. This data using primary data sources are derived from filling the questionnaire and interviews whit taxpayer that registered in tax office south Malang and assisted with a variety of relevant secondary data. Data were collected using accidental sampling method and analyzed by using path analysis in SPSS version 20. The results showed that both the tax administration, the quality of service performed by the tax authorities, and the behavior of taxpayer directly have a significant impact on taxpayer compliance. The results also show that the tax administration and the the quality of service performed by the tax authorities has a significant effect when mediated through the behavior of taxpayer. Therefore, based on the reseach that has been done, then all hypotheses that have been constructed in this study is acceptable. Various limitations faced by researchers is expected to become a challenge for future research to obtain reseach results further illustrate the factor that influence the increase taxpayer compliance.

scholarly journals Environmental protection principles under Hungarian legislation

2020 ◽  
pp. 431-436
Author(s):  
Róbert Romanska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
Land Water

After reviewing and detailing the topic, it can be stated that the Hungarian environmental protection regulations fully complywith the environmental protection provisions of the European Union in principle. The goals are clearly composed when marks thereduction of the use, loading and pollution of the environment, the prevention of its impairment, and the repair and restoration of thedamaged environment; the protection of human health and the improvement of the environmental conditions of the quality of life; andother main objectives. The basic provisions cover the protection of the main and most basic environmental components (land, water,air, biosphere, built environment) and handle them as a unit. In the field of hazardous substances and technologies, noise, vibrationsand radiation, as well as waste, the provisions in principle are uniform and show internal coherence. According to the Hungarianregulations the observance of the precautionary principle has a great importance, as well as the role of the public in case ofenvironmental damage. In my view, the protection of human health would also require more detailed regulation in principle, as humansare part of the environment, so in this regard, health statutory provisions alone are no longer sufficient.

New Directions in Rehabilitation Counseling Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-209
Author(s):  
Phillip D. Rumrill ◽  
James L. Bellini ◽  
Lynn C. Koch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Rehabilitation Outcomes ◽  
New Directions

The purpose of this article is to examine future directions in rehabilitation counseling research that will build on prior investigations to improve rehabilitation outcomes and enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities. The authors discuss the role of theory in guiding future research and implementing evidence-based practices. Next, they recommend topics to be further investigated in future inquiry. The article concludes with an exploration of emerging research approaches and techniques that are either beginning to be used by rehabilitation researchers or, if not being used, have the potential to contribute to the rehabilitation counseling knowledge base.

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