In search of ICT in smart cities – Policy documents as idea carriers in urban development

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9820 LNCS, Issue , 2016, Pages 215-227

  Axelsson, Karin ^a   Melin, Ulf ^a   Granath, Malin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Institutional carriers; Institutional theory; Policy; Smart city; Urban development

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; POLICY DOCUMENTS; POLICY LEVEL; POLICY MAKING; SMART CITIES; SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL; SWEDISHS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84984920255     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44421-5_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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