The Analysis of the Slovak Citizens’ Awareness about the Smart City Concept

Cagáňová, Dagmar; Stareček, Augustín; Horňáková, Natália; Hlásniková, Petra Ridzoňová

doi:10.1007/s11036-018-01210-6

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“…These results showed that urban sustainability behavior is mainly predicted by awareness and attitude. This resonates with the findings of Barr [20], Buerke et al [45], Cagáňová et al [46], Guagnano et al [47], and Peng et al [48]. In order to enhance sustainability behavior, there should be a stronger focus on increasing the awareness of people by informative activities, training opportunities, public campaigns and advertisements, and social media [49].…”

Section: Determinants and Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 68%

“…Satisfaction with the built environment had a weak to moderate correlation with awareness, attitude, and behavior, yet no significant relationship was found as a result of the linear regression tests. Although it was reported in the literature to have an impact on sustainability behavior [46,80,81], this was not the case for the Turkey context. The comments above made in relation to place attachment might therefore be echoed here.…”

Section: Satisfaction With Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

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The success of urban sustainability is very much dependent on a number of human factors. Therefore, it becomes even more important to explore how people understand urban sustainability and how they behave accordingly. Based on a formerly developed conceptual framework and on specified influencing factors, this study aimed to evaluate and elucidate the urban sustainability understanding and behavior of individuals in the city of Istanbul. This was assessed through the use of a quantitative questionnaire survey of 535 respondents. Therein, socio-psychological processes of sustainability understanding (i.e., determinants of awareness, perception, and attitude) and sustainability behaviors along with personality traits and influential factors were assessed and analyzed through the use of bivariate and multivariate methods (i.e., correlation tests, ANOVA, t-tests, and multiple linear regression). The results showed that sustainability awareness was more strongly correlated with attitude than perception, whereas behavior was found to be strongly correlated with both awareness and attitude and was (significantly) predicted by all determinants. The associations/influences of personality traits with determinants were found to be mostly insignificant. Conversely, for behavior, they were significant. The most influential factors found (in hierarchical ordering) were awareness of consequences, trust in society, social appraisement, world-mindedness, willingness to pay, trust in science and technology, ascription of responsibility, age and gender.

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Section: Determinants and Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 68%

Section: Satisfaction With Built Environmentmentioning

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Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

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“…This is gaining importance with the oncoming of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as competitive technology or its financial strategy can be imitated much easier than imitating the soft aspects of management and development within an organization. Human potential can be perceived as the only and unique, living and reviving, dynamic and dynamizing power of an enterprise (Cagáňová et al 2019;Stacho et al 2019;Stacho et al, 2017;Vojtech et al 2019;Papula et al 2018;Hitka et al 2017). Identifying, exploiting, motivating, and developing constructive human potential involves meaningful and systematic effort that is nowadays perceived as the management and development of human potential (Blašková, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Human resource management trends in Slovakia

Stachová¹,

Stacho²,

Raišienė³

et al. 2020

Journal of International Studies

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Human potential introduces an enormous range of knowledge, skills, predictable and unpredictable responses, ways of perception, experience, and behaviour. The human potential in the corporate environment, i.e. people and their complex positive and negative abilities are mostly constructive, but sometimes destructive creators of new values and new knowledge. The need to implement changes in management systems is a challenge and a condition for future competitiveness these days. In this paper, the authors focus on the culturalhistorical development of human resource management from the time when people were only a secondary component of production to the present when they are a key element in maintaining competitiveness. A survey conducted between 2010 and 2019 analyses how human resource management in Slovak organizations has changed over the past decade. The survey revealed several

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“…Furthermore, one can argue on the fact that cities can deliver high quality of life without being smart: results reported by Bertalan (2015) revealed that inhabitants of Sopron (Hungary) identified 'livable' as being the main trait of their city (following 'historic' and 'border city'), while 'intelligent' was identified as the least pronounced trait of their city. In Slovakia, a recent study (Cagáňová et al, 2019) testing the degree of information and awareness of local population found that 63% of the population from regional cities is not aware of the 'smart city' meaning. Furthermore, a research conducted by Nick and Pongrácz (2016) on the Development Strategies of the Hungarian cities of Györ and Kecskemét found that Györ's strategy frequently refers to the smart city concept, but promotes smart (and IT) solutions mostly for the energy sector, while Kecskemét's strategy does not employ the term 'smart city', but envisages IT solutions for o broader array of domains.…”

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The Puzzling Concept of Smart City in Central and Eastern Europe: A Literature Review Designed for Policy Development

Ibănescu

Bănică

Eva

et al. 2020

TRAS

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The modern concept of smart city rose from a relatively ambiguous term dealing with the future of urban areas to one of the most popular contemporary fields of research. Tackling a considerable range of topics from digitalization, citizen involvement, sustainability or governance, it managed to rapidly attract both academics and policy-makers. This study reviews the research papers published on smart city concept with application to European Union, and especially to the new member states from Central and Eastern Europe. The results indicate many common features of smart cities in EU, but also some peculiarities of CEE in this regard, many deriving from their socialist inheritance. Meanwhile, it can be noticed the rather incipient status of smart cities approaches, the insufficient resources allocated by local authorities, which rely extensively on EU funding, the lack of awareness from citizens and the lack of a comprehensive and structured strategic approach. In order to tackle the abovementioned issues, our paper suggests a series of measures and directions for policy-makers, local administrations and business environment.

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The Analysis of the Slovak Citizens’ Awareness about the Smart City Concept

Cited by 14 publications

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Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

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The Puzzling Concept of Smart City in Central and Eastern Europe: A Literature Review Designed for Policy Development

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