Toward a Resource‐Based View of City Quality: A New Framework

Carvalho, João M. S.; Costa, Ricardo V.; Marnoto, Sandra; Sousa, C.A. Alves de; Vieira, José Carvalho

doi:10.1111/grow.12237

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“…Nomological validity concerns the reasonability of the correlation among the constructs in a theory. The theoretical and empirical frameworks were established by the seminal work of Carvalho et al (), as well as the specification of the connections between them (Cronbach & Meehl, ). So, we analyzed this validity, as well as the criterion validity in the context of the model analysis.…”

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“…The PESNAT model, based on a resource‐based view of city quality, considers six sub‐habitats or dimensions: political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological (Carvalho et al, ). In order to measure these sub‐habitats and define their contents, we relied on models that have been developed around smart city‐related concepts (Table ).…”

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“…What are the most important city resources for citizens’ perceived well‐being and happiness? To answer these questions, Carvalho, Costa, Marnoto, Sousa, and Vieira () conducted an extensive literature review around the concepts of intelligent city, smart city and happy city, as well as their impact on well‐being, quality of life, and happiness, concepts which are being used interchangeably (Veenhoven, ). The concept of happiness is central in this debate.…”

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“…Therefore, it is argued that in order to better understand the determinants of city quality, its relevance and its hierarchy for citizens’ happiness, an approach is needed that takes into account its multidimensional character. A resource‐based view of city (Carvalho et al, ), which targets different yet interrelated cities’ sub‐habitats—political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological (the PESNAT model, see Table ), seems to be a suitable candidate for the task. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, these authors did not provide any solid guidance about scales or items in their seminal yet conceptual article.…”

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“…Based on scholars’ consensus about the importance of intangible resources management for the success of organizations, Carvalho et al () extended the resource‐based view of the firm (Barney, ; Wernerfelt, ) to the analysis of the cities’ environment, seeking for competitive advantages related to the processes of accumulation, management, and distribution of resources within the city. Thus, they defined city quality as “the level of development of the city's habitat that may allow the satisfaction of objective and subjective human needs, individually or in relation to business activities” (Carvalho et al, , p. 276).…”

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As the urban world population grows steadily, cities have become the main habitat for human beings. Against this backdrop, city quality or the level of development of the city's habitat that ensures the satisfaction of objective and subjective human needs become a matter of growing interest and concern for academics, policy makers, and citizens. Building on a resource‐based view of city quality, the aim of this paper is twofold. First, it proposes and validates scales for six city sub‐habitats: political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological. Second, it tests a model and the underlying hypothesis about the ranking of those sub‐habitats and of the perceived controversy regarding decision making upon them. For those purposes, a survey of 768 city inhabitants was conducted in Portugal to measure city quality and their sub‐habitats. Both the predicted ranking of importance of the sub‐habitats and the perceived ranking of controversy were empirically validated. The results constitute a novel and important contribution to understand city quality and its sub‐habitats, whose conceptual power relies on hierarchized factors linked to citizens’ happiness and to the level of controversy of the solutions.

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Toward a Resource‐Based View of City Quality: A New Framework

Cited by 19 publications

References 169 publications

Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validation

Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validation

A social media analytics perspective for human‐oriented smart city planning and management

Smart innovations for sustainable cities: Insights from a public‐private innovation ecosystem

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