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- Aleksandrov, Evgenii, et al.
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Rankings for smart city dialogue? : Opening up a critical scrutiny
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Ingår i: Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. - 1096-3367 .- 1945-1814. ; 34:5, s. 622-643
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: This paper aims to explore whether and how contemporary rankings reflect the dialogic development of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on the synthesis of smart city (SC), rankings and dialogic accounting literature. It first analyses ranking documents and related methodologies and measures and then reflects on four SC rankings, taking a critical stand on whether they provide space for the polyphonic development of smart cities. Findings: This study argues that rankings do not include divergent perspectives and visions of smart cities, trapping cities in a mirage of multiple voices and bringing about a lack of urban stakeholder engagement. In other words, there is a gap between the democratic demands on smart cities and what rankings provide to governments when it comes to dialogue. As such, rankings in their existing traditional and technocratic form do not serve the dynamic and complex nature of the SC agenda. This, in turn, raises the threat that rankings create a particular notion of smartness across urban development with no possibility of questioning it. Originality/value: The paper responds to recent calls to critically examine the concept of the SC and the role that accounting has played in its development. This study brings new insights regarding the value of dialogic accounting in shaping a contemporary understanding of rankings and their criticalities in the SC agenda.
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- Björner, Emma, et al.
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Chinese tourism consumption vis-à-vis tourism development strategies in the Arctic
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Ingår i: Asian Mobilities Consumption in a Changing Arctic. - : Routledge. - 9781003039518 ; , s. 29-42
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current national Arctic strategies of Sweden, Norway, and Finland consider tourism as a key industry and point out its significance for sustainable development in the region. Concurrently, China’s Arctic Policy talks about China being the source of tourists to the Arctic. Additionally, the tourism industry’s own strategies recognise that the Asian market shows strong growth in the number of travellers over the last decade. Further, there is great potential in the longer term. This chapter addresses how tourism development and destination branding is portrayed in policy and strategy documents dealing with the Arctic and how that corresponds with Chinese tourism consumption in the case of the Swedish Arctic. The findings show that, at all levels, tourism development and destination branding as portrayed in policies and strategies s increasingly tied to all three pillars of sustainability, even though economic and environmental aspects still dominate. Furthermore, relevant Chinese consumption patterns are elaborated upon. These patterns indicate that Chinese tourists are both similar to and different from Western travellers and have certain traits, partly influenced by cultural and Confucian values. Policies and strategy documents should be aligned with this notion in order to facilitate sustainable tourism development in the Arctic.
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- Dybtsyna, Elena, et al.
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The rhetoric and practice of business research collaboration among high north universities
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Ingår i: Barents Studies. - : Lapin yliopisto. - 2324-0652. ; 6:1, s. 87-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- International research collaboration and business development in the High North have become hot topics at the governmental policy level in many countries. However, despite prior research on co-operation between Nordic universities, there is a dearth of research specifically addressing the practice of High North research collaboration in business studies. We ask the following research question: how are the prospects for business research collaboration among High North Universities portrayed in national policy documents and to what extent is business research in the High North collaborative in practice? We address this question by analyses and comparisons of publicly available governmental Arctic strategies and bibliographic data on joint publications between researchers from High North universities in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The empirical results reveal diverging yet far-reaching national aspirations at the policy level which do not match the rather modest research collaboration in practice evidenced by our bibliographic data. Our conclusions suggest that the rhetoric of High North business research collaboration and the practice of actual collaboration among High North universities are decoupled from each other. We theorize about explanatory circumstances behind decoupling in the area of research collaboration and provide suggestions for further research.
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