Stakeholders’ stake and relation to smartness in smart city development: Insights from a Swedish city planning project

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 693-702

  Axelsson, Karin ^a   Granath, Malin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

City planning; Smart city; Smartness; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053135240     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2018.09.001     Document Type: Article

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