Moving beyond Smart Cities: Digital Nations for Social Innovation &amp; Sustainability

Kar, Arpan Kumar; Ilavarasan, P. Vigneswara; Gupta, Mayank; Janssen, Marijn; Kothari, Ravi

doi:10.1007/s10796-019-09930-0

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“…Previous studies suggest that digital transformation might be a significant driver to achieve sustainability (Maffei et al 2019), and has generated entirely new mechanisms to maintain and promote natural resources, national wealth, and well-being (Akande et al 2019). Accordingly, several IS researchers suggest that nations should set programs and undertake initiatives towards digitalisation in order to achieve sustainability objectives (Bednar and Welch 2019;Kar et al 2019). However, understanding the digitalisation as a complex phenomenon (Park and Saraf 2016), which consists of several factors, such as infrastructure, capabilities, usage, and change (Hanna 2016) is a challenging problem.…”

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Modelling the Asymmetrical Relationships between Digitalisation and Sustainable Competitiveness: A Cross-Country Configurational Analysis

2020

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Sustainable competitiveness (SC) encourages nations not only to meet the needs of the current generation but also to sustain or even expand national wealth in the future without depleting natural and social capital. Drawing on complexity theory, we used a configurational approach to identify under what necessary and sufficient conditions, digitalisation contributes to achieve higher SC. Shifting attention from net effects to configuration analysis improves our understanding of cross-national differences in sustainability by exploring how the digitalisation factors combine to strengthen SC power across countries. To address the complexity of this configuration, we have incorporated fsQCA and NCA techniques in the modelling of high and low levels of sustainable competitiveness recipes. Analysis of data from 127 countries advanced our perception of how access to ICT infrastructures and capabilities, combined with the adoption and usage of ICT could result in different degrees of sustainable competitiveness. Theoretically, this study contributes to the literature on digitalisation and national sustainability; and it can practically act as a guideline for policymakers to understand the complex interactions and causal configurations of digitalisation factors on sustainability.

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Modelling the Asymmetrical Relationships between Digitalisation and Sustainable Competitiveness: A Cross-Country Configurational Analysis

2020

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“…Given that a smart home is an integral part of smart cities (Ismagilova et al, 2019 ), the findings can be helpful in securing a higher level of smart technologies embeddedness in the smart urban ecosystem. A higher adoption of smart home data-driven technologies may accelerate the sustainability effect, which is the goal of smart cities (Ismagilova et al, 2019 , Kar et al, 2019 ). The data generated by smart homes can provide insights into the human-technology interaction and the communication between the stakeholders of the smart environment.…”

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Cognitive Dissonance in Technology Adoption: A Study of Smart Home Users

2020

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This study aims to address a research gap related to the outcomes of the use of technology when the performance falls short of initial expectations, and the coping mechanisms that users may deploy in such circumstances. By adopting Cognitive Dissonance Theory, the objectives of the study are a) to examine how dissonance, caused by the negative disconfirmation of expectations, may translate into a positive outcome and b) study how negative emotions, such as anger, guilt and regret, determine the selection of the mechanism to reduce dissonance. The theorised model was tested using a cross-sectional research design and a sample of 387 smart home users. The focus on smart home users fitted the objectives of the study due to the high expectations that users form and the challenges that the utilisation of technology sometimes causes. The collected data was analysed using structural equation modelling. Findings indicate that post-disconfirmation dissonance induces feelings of anger, guilt and regret, correlating with dissonance reduction mechanisms, which in turn have a distinctive effect on satisfaction and wellbeing. The findings of the study contribute to the discussion on expectation-disconfirmation and cognitive dissonance, by illustrating the interrelationship between emotional, cognitive and behavioural factors following the evaluation of technology performance and confirming that negative disconfirmation may result in satisfaction.

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“…The literature has developed a number of studies that have presented reviews of the smart city literature (Albino et al 2015;Anthopoulos 2015;Bibri and Krogstie 2017;Chatterjee and Kar 2015;Ismagiloiva et al 2019a;Kar et al 2019;Rana et al 2019). However, researchers seem to have omitted to offer a meaningful analysis of the significant threats to data security and the inherent complexities surrounding privacy within smart cities.…”

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Security, Privacy and Risks Within Smart Cities: Literature Review and Development of a Smart City Interaction Framework

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The complex and interdependent nature of smart cities raises significant political, technical, and socioeconomic challenges for designers, integrators and organisations involved in administrating these new entities. An increasing number of studies focus on the security, privacy and risks within smart cities, highlighting the threats relating to information security and challenges for smart city infrastructure in the management and processing of personal data. This study analyses many of these challenges, offers a valuable synthesis of the relevant key literature, and develops a smart city interaction framework. The study is organised around a number of key themes within smart cities research: privacy and security of mobile devices and services; smart city infrastructure, power systems, healthcare, frameworks, algorithms and protocols to improve security and privacy, operational threats for smart cities, use and adoption of smart services by citizens, use of blockchain and use of social media. This comprehensive review provides a useful perspective on many of the key issues and offers key direction for future studies. The findings of this study can provide an informative research framework and reference point for academics and practitioners.

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Moving beyond Smart Cities: Digital Nations for Social Innovation & Sustainability

Cited by 106 publications

References 23 publications

Modelling the Asymmetrical Relationships between Digitalisation and Sustainable Competitiveness: A Cross-Country Configurational Analysis

Modelling the Asymmetrical Relationships between Digitalisation and Sustainable Competitiveness: A Cross-Country Configurational Analysis

Cognitive Dissonance in Technology Adoption: A Study of Smart Home Users

Security, Privacy and Risks Within Smart Cities: Literature Review and Development of a Smart City Interaction Framework

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