Abstract To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), urgent
action is needed across all scales, with an increased importance being placed on local …

This article analyzes a strategy-drafting process, using it to illustrate what can happen in a
strategy process that affects a city organization but is invisible in the final strategy document …

The aim of this paper is to offer an empirically grounded conceptualization of the dialogical
relationship between spatial planning and place branding in the context of regionalization …

Place branding strategies contribute to policy decisions that shape a city. Little research,
however, investigates how place marketers influence the decision-making of those higher …

Strategic management in the public sector has become quite popular in practice and several
studies have shown that it has an impact on organizational performance. However, we still …

This paper investigates the role of strategic artifacts in realizing change in two Swedish
cities. Drawing from qualitative studies of city development projects we illustrate how …

Strategic urban planning is promoted to effectively implement sustainability policies. This
paper investigates the role of practitioners when conducting strategic urban planning in a …

This article uses a paradox knotting perspective to study key leadership challenges among
Danish manufacturing and crafting SMEs. As part of an action-learning development …

This licentiate thesis investigates the development of two aspects of smart mobility,
driverless shuttles and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in relation to public transport. Smart …

The article continues a cycle of research on the status of strategic planning in Russian
municipalities. The paper presents formalized results of an analysis of texts of 82 …