Identifying and Interpreting the City Manager's Mental Patterns towards the Smart City: A Q Research in Hamadan

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 MSc. Department of Management, College of Humanities, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamadan, Iran.

2 Assistant Prof., Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

3 Assistant Prof., Department of Management, College of Humanities, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamadan, Iran.

4 MSc. Student, Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

Abstract

Objective: Policymaking in the field of urban management requires understanding the mental models and patterns of managers, experts and those involved in this field. The purpose of this research was to identify and interpret mental models of urban managers in Hamadan city towards a smart city.
Methods: The method of this research is the Q methodology. The participants of the present study were 25 managers and urban experts in Hamadan who have high influence and influence in decision making in the metropolitan area. They were selected through purposeful and non-probable sampling. The discourse space of the present study was gathered from various sources such as interviewing 11 managers and urban experts and literature.
Results: After evaluating and summarizing the concourse, 204 short sentences were selected as Q samples. After a survey of experts, a total of 42 sentences were selected as examples of Q samples. After creating the terms of the concourse, they interviewed them with Q methodology. After collecting the data from Q sorting, this data was analyzed by SPSS software version 25 with Q analysis method and identified 11 distinct mental patterns among participants of the research on the smart city which (77.32) per cent of variance Explained the whole.
Conclusion: These 11 subjective patterns are named, respectively, in the names of "promising macro", "pivotal advocates", "pivotal advocates", "urban planners", "justice-oriented realists", "law-oriented cultures", "pro Upgrading strategies", "scientific developers"," extroverts interested in agility", "unpriced economists" and eventually "environmental advocates" were named and the importance and prioritization of identified cases of the smart city based on the mental patterns achieved face Took In the end, according to the interpretation of the mental models, solutions have been proposed to accelerate urban intelligence

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Journal of Public Administration
Volume 12, Issue 3
2020
Pages 494-527

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