
Ari-Veikko AnttiroikoTampere University | UTA · Faculty of Management and Business
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
MSc, MPhil, LicSocSc, PhD
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Introduction
Dr. Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland.
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New Urban Management discusses how the logic of economic flows poses a challenge to local governments throughout the world. The book argues that the increased fluidity in economic life must have its reflection in local economic development policy. The analysis begins with the idea of space of flows, but this goes much further than available literat...
Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms of capital, entrepreneurship, information, expertise and consumption. This competition takes place in an asymmetric field, with cities trying to find the best possible way...
This article provides an overview of local governments’ opportunities to utilise creative city thinking in their local development policy. The aim is to shed light on how creative city approaches relate to structural urban asymmetry, i.e. how structural factors condition local governments’ efforts to translate creative city theories into urban deve...
Recent changes in service environments have changed the preconditions of their production and consumption. These changes include unbundling services from production processes, growth of the information-rich economy and society, the search for creativity in service production and consumption and continuing growth of digital technologies. These conte...
This article discusses the background, nature and application of the concept of ubiquitous city, presenting u-city initiatives of affluent and techno-savvy cities in Asia and the West with special reference to the case of South Korea. The focus is on how ubiquitous technologies have been and can be utilised in developing urban infrastructure, inclu...
This chapter sheds light on the role of platformization in reshaping the premises and practices of urban e-planning in the context of a technologically advanced liberal and democratic society. Discussion focuses on urban platforms' embeddedness in institutional environment and their potential to democratize urban e-planning. Incorporating evidence...
This article contributes to expanding the literature on and understanding about urban circular economy (CE) transitions towards circular cities, with a particular focus on the circularity of critical raw materials (CRMs), by identifying barriers in the transition’s exploration phase. We collected our empirical research data from 7 Finnish cities by...
In this paper, we discuss an eco-industrial park (EIP) formation process and its role in promoting regional circular economy (CE) policy from a stakeholder perspective. This case study adds to the knowledge of stakeholder engagement and the role of intermediation in EIP formation and related urban–regional CE policies. By reviewing the case of the...
Purpose
This article investigates the practical implementation of the ecosystem approach in different branches of public management within an urban context. It explores how ecosystem thinking is introduced, disseminated and applied in a local government organization.
Design/methodology/approach
We utilize a qualitative case study methodology, rely...
This chapter outlines the local government in Finland. Municipalities form the basic units of the political-administrative system. They have a vital role in local infrastructure, education and economic development policy. In this chapter, we describe the development of this system with a focus on major changes in the post-war decades, and on that b...
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of public administration in Finland. Many of the basic structures of Finnish public administration have remained intact during the country’s relatively short independence of 100 years, but she has been able to tackle major turbulence ranging from wars and financial crises to the Covid-19 pandemic. Finland...
This article discusses the governance of a smart-green transition in an urban region. The focus is on how the modes of public governance relate to relationality, spatiality, and digitality, which are of vital importance in determining the success of the transition in question. The empirical inquiry is based on observations of the case of the Tamper...
Urban platforms as a mode of governance
This article provides an analysis of urban platform governance by mapping out the major forms of public governance and depicting the role of platforms in this field. By fusing theoretical analyses and empirical views from three urban platforms set up by the largest cities in Finland, we assess the relevance o...
This chapter discusses the adoption of open governance in public finance with a particular view to citizen-friendly budgeting and consistent financial reporting in local government in the developing country context. The authors are interested in how a concept that was developed in the Western world is adopted in developing countries. The objective...
This article discusses the evolution, scope, and impact of ecosystem thinking in public service management in the city of Espoo, Finland. Discussion starts with a brief introduction to the emergence of ecosystem thinking and the ideas on which the conceptualization of ecosystems in the given local context have been anchored. The second task is to d...
This article analyses the dynamics of local platform governance with special regard to the roles and relations of city governments, citizens, and local businesses. We approach the subject through five Finnish platforms in which city governments are actively involved. This multiple case study shows that city governments tend to adopt a facilitative...
The design of responses to global COVID-19 crisis is a multilevel policy and governance issue, which involves institutions from local to global levels. This chapter discusses the local government responses to the crisis in five Western political-administrative contexts, those of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Nordic cou...
The concept of platform, its connotations and relationship with local governance The aim of this article is to shed light on the relevance of platforms in urban governance. Discussion starts with a brief description of the evolution of platform discourse and a critical view of how platforms relate to governance paradigms. As the idea of platform is...
This article provides an analysis of urban platform governance by mapping out the major forms of public governance and depicting the role of platforms in this field. By fusing theoretical analyses and empirical views from three urban platforms set up by the largest cities in Finland, we assess the relevance of platforms as an emerging form of local...
This article discusses national and local strategies for confronting COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis sheds light on how societal context, institutional arrangements, knowledge culture, and technology deployment manifest in national responses to the pandemic. Discussion describes country cases from East and South East Asia, on the one hand, and from...
The aim of this article is to shed light on how ongoing structural change towards the global digital economy condition urban economic development. Discussion starts with a brief reference to the growth machine thesis and its emphasis on the interests of local land and real estate owners. This theory serves as a contrasting point for the second elem...
Identity politics has gained prominence in the postwar decades. Especially feminist movement sparked remarkable political change throughout the developed world, and obviously for a good reason. It has been embraced enthusiastically in Nordic countries, which have dedicated to mainstream gender equality policy. These efforts, however, seem to have b...
This chapter discusses the preconditions for the development of public smart city services by grounding their design on service-dominant logic. The aim is to pinpoint the critical aspects of the service-dominant approach in the public sector context and smart city development, and on that basis provide an analytical picture of how the instances of...
This chapter discusses the ability of new technologies to support collective intelligence. The technology trend brought into the spotlight is Web 2.0 because it has a great potential to contribute to the refined understanding of planning issues. Such an application field can be called Collective Intelligence 2.0 with crowdsourcing as its characteri...
This chapter takes a close view of wellness city strategies in the context of global competition between cities by focusing on three types of strategy: smart, community-driven wellness city strategies; tourist attraction-oriented wellness city strategies; and innovative, export-driven wellness city strategies. Each is briefly introduced and then ex...
Urban wellness draws attention to the relationship between holistic wellness and urban life. This chapter sheds light on the levels and dynamics of wellness in the city. It conceptualizes the city as a “dissipative structure” that integrates wellness resources and flows. Another topic discussed is an institutional view of wellness, with a focus on...
This chapter starts with a conceptual clarification and the building of a conceptual model of wellness. The latter, referred to as the Y model of wellness, identifies eight dimensions, which serve as the basis for determining the major areas of wellness-oriented urban economic development. The conceptual investigation brings forth such concepts as...
This chapter explores the core topic of this book, the role of wellness in urban economic development. Discussion starts with a brief description of the major trends behind the wellness revolution and continues with a brief introduction to the wellness economy. From the characterization of the wellness economy, the discussion moves to local policy...
This chapter broadens the discussion to the socio-economic context of urban economic development, beginning with the urban health divide, which is a serious socio-economic problem in practically all advanced countries. A corrective policy perspective on community health is referred to as wellness for all, a perspective that indirectly contributes t...
The brief concluding chapter provides a summary of this book on wellness cities at the intersection of holistic health, economy, and urban governance. It highlights the main message, summarizes the role of the eight dimensions of the Y model of wellness, and identifies six possible roles for wellness in local economic development. The discussion en...
This chapter drills down into the eight dimensions of the Y model of wellness and their relevance for urban economic development: health care as a wellness-related business; spa, beauty, and fitness as the soft core of a wellness cluster; wellness-related shopping, entertainment, and human desires; natural assets and livable urban environments; lif...
This study summarizes the phases of quasi-marketization of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area bus services and analyses the financial and structural consequences for purchasers and providers. Qualitative data was collected through interviews, a focus group, and extensive document reviews, while the quantitative data was received from a sub-regional aut...
‘Wellness is a major economic trend of our time. Anttiroiko highlights key dimensions of wellness-oriented policy and reveals empirical cases that illustrate how local governments can profit from wellness strategies. This book should be read by students, experts and public managers looking to create new policies on local economic development.’
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In the aftermath of large company failures in the early 2000s, there emerged a new wave of efforts to enhance risk management (RM) and control in enterprises. The normative RM model has been promoted widely to all organisations, including public sector organisations. Using survey data, this article describes and explains the diffusion and adoption...
This article discusses three success stories of good governance, those in Finland, New Zealand and Singapore, and their ability to serve as benchmarks or models for developing countries seeking to eradicate corruption. The analysis shows that Finland and New Zealand are evolutionary cases with low-profile anti-corruption policies, whereas Singapore...
This article discusses three success stories of good governance, those in Finland, New Zealand and Singapore, and their ability to serve as benchmarks or models for developing countries seeking to eradicate corruption. The analysis shows that Finland and New Zealand are evolutionary cases with low-profile anti-corruption policies, whereas Singapore...
This paper discusses the forms and social implications of citizen engagement in government-sponsored participatory innovation platforms designed to serve urban economic renewal. Discussion starts with a review of smart city discourse, which in the context of economic development policy translates into cities' need to support innovativeness by creat...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rationale and functioning of the partnership-based brokerage model as a vehicle of service integration with special reference to its support for information intermediation, learning and service market creation.
Design/methodology/approach
The theoretical framework is built on the tension between...
This article discusses the idea of city as a platform. The analysis focuses on the forms and implications of citizen involvement in publicly-supported participatory innovation platforms that facilitate urban economic development in the welfare society context. The discussion opens with a review of the smart city discourse, which in the context of e...
A perceived need for a wider resource base for territorial governance has initiated a new trend for regionalisation throughout the developed world. Local governments are frequently opposed to such a development. This article presents an institutional analysis of how Finland’s tradition of strong localism has affected the forms, processes, and resul...
Innovations have become indispensable in global intercity competition. Local actors must be able to forge links to different domains of global innovation in order to be able to gain access to and benefit from global flows of values. In this article, we analyse metropolitan governments’ strategies for global innovation networking, drawing empirical...
Good governance has become a prominent topic on the development agendas of national governments, regional institutions and international organisations. There is common understanding that it is an imperative for development. This article discusses two success stories, those of Finland and Singapore, and their road to good governance. The analysis sh...
The aim of this article is to shed light on the theory and praxis of utility stakeholder communication. Our general research objective is to contrast citizens’ experiences of utility-specific information needs with the views of communication managers of municipal water utilities. Empirical data for the study were gathered using two methods. Citizen...
This article discusses the conceptualization of network in Manuel Castells’ theory of network society and its relation to network analysis. Networks assumed a significant role in Castells’ opus magnum, The Information Age trilogy, in the latter half of the 1990s. He became possibly the most prominent figure globally in adopting network terminology...
This paper discusses the conceptualization of network in Manuel Castells’ theory of network society. Castells’ early academic works were built on the structural analysis of capitalism and social movements in response to the contradictions of capitalist society, without any explicit connection to network analysis. Networks gradually appeared in Cast...
This chapter discusses responses to severe structural problemsfaced by postindustrial cities in developedcountries. The driving force behind this development is deindustrialization and the need to find ways for compensating the job losses in manufacturing. The research question is: how can smart platforms support innovative local economic restructu...
This article discusses the conceptualization of network in Manuel Castells’ theory of network society. Networks appeared in Castells’ works in the late 1980s, when he became interested in the configuration of the relationships between technology, economy, and society. The culmination of this phase was his opus magnum, The Information Age trilogy, w...
This chapter discusses the ability of new technologies to support collective intelligence. The technology trend brought into the spotlight is Web 2.0 because it has a great potential to contribute to the refined understanding of planning issues. Such an application field can be called Collective Intelligence 2.0 with crowdsourcing as its characteri...
This section discusses the aspects of urban dissipative structure that go beyond material flows. Discussion starts with a brief outlook of migration flows. Next topic is the political economy of urban symbolism followed by discussion of economies of signs and of the cultural landscapes of late modernity. The figures whose theorisations are in focus...
The promotion of local economic development takes place in an increasingly fluid economic environment. This is why local governments benefit from better self-understanding of their nature as hubs of flows or ‘dissipative structures’, which opens up a view of a city’s interaction with the outside world. This chapter builds a picture of local economy...
This chapter starts by linking localities with global economy using the scheme known as City Attraction Hypothesis. It discusses the attraction-oriented urban development in the context of global intercity competition. The rest of the discussion takes a managerial view on flow analysis and related urban attraction management. If the economy is incr...
In this chapter, an economic flow analysis is built to concretise the picture of a city as an economic dissipative structure with in and out flows of consumption and production. Discussion is divided into three themes according to Attractors-Flows-Dynamics scheme: attraction factors, economic flows and dynamics of specific flows. As the types of fl...
This chapter outlines the idea of flows in terms of economic taxonomies and categorisations. It provides brief description of circular flow models, T-account analyses (e.g. GDP), industry and cluster classifications, trade and capital flow analyses (especially FDIs) and descriptions of flows of goods and materials. The idea is to popularise the app...
This chapter addresses the challenges that changing technologies pose to urban planning. Urban planning continues to be influenced by an emerging creativity and knowledge-sharing culture that has an inherent connection to digital transformation. Technology certainly plays an important role in the production of content and its distribution. Such a t...
Globalisation is dramatically changing the context of urban communities and the premises for urban development policy. In the context of global intercity competition, cities' major goal is to increase their competitiveness, in which the positioning and attractiveness of a city have a critical function. Attraction-oriented development strategies aim...
e-Government has become an inherent aspect of the modernization of public administration all over the world. Increased use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has created a new channel of the interaction and communication between government and citizens, which is supposed to increase transparency, responsiveness and the utilization...
In urban communities, infrastructures that support living are indispensable. There is increased interest in alternative ways of providing such support systems, including semi-autonomous infrastructures resulting from the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we analyze the emergence and management of such infrastructures in light of the...
This paper argues that justifying lack of productivity improvements in public services by referring to Baumol’s Cost Disease (BCD) is conceptually confused, theoretically misspecified and empirically blind. BCD misconceptualizes public services as categorically distinct from manufactured goods and is based on a theory of productivity not directly a...
Economic life is increasingly global and frictionless, and its essence has sometimes been depicted by the idea of space of flows. The emergence of such dimensions of the economy further intensifies global intercity competition, giving impetus to metropolitan governments to attract such flows of values through their innovation milieux and urban amen...
Chapter 1 provided the rationale for innovation in all sectors of the economy, specifically to promote economic growth and social development. More generally, societies have to be innovative if it is to protect and promote social well-being within a changing global context. Innovation in the public sector can both support and be supported by a cult...
This paper analyses the partnership-based outsourcing model of service transformation in USA local government, focusing on the city of Sandy Springs which became widely known for its large-scale 'turnkey' outsourcing of provision of its services in the mid-2000s. This city has been referred to in the literature as a special case not applicable to o...
Reforming public services has become an integral part of instituting austerity measures as governments around the world struggle to balance the books in the wake of the financial crisis. Vital public services and government departments have been given the seemingly impossible task of delivering better services to the public while receiving less fun...
This chapter addresses the challenges that changing technologies pose to urban planning. Urban planning continues to be influenced by an emerging creativity and knowledge-sharing culture that has an inherent connection to digital transformation. Technology certainly plays an important role in the production of content and its distribution. Such a t...
The previous chapters analyzed specific examples of the wide range of organizational innovations in various developed countries. They have been assisted by the increasing degree of separation between public administration and public finance and between support services and customer services. That separation was itself driven by development of the N...
Innovation underpins the process of economic growth because it is intrinsically linked to changes in the systems of production and consumption. Indeed, the strong growth of national economies and social welfare systems does not occur simply by scaling up existing organizational activities and structures. Instead, it involves innovation-based endoge...
Models of public governance are changing profoundly due to global and digital transformations and various context-specific societal pressures. One direction of development is the increased utilisation of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in facilitating governance practices. Such changes are intended to improve the performance of pu...
This article addresses the challenges to urban planning, which is a social activity that affects the development of urban communities and helps them to cope with the challenges posed by the global-local and real-virtual dialectic. The approach to planning is influenced by an emerging creativity and knowledge-sharing culture that has an inherent con...
Due to increased cross-boundary flows of resources, local governments have become more concerned with global economic development. In this regard, in this paper, the author discusses how globalisation and related intercity competition pose challenges to the development of cities. The objective is to describe innovative ways of dealing with global i...
Web 2.0 is the general term for new technologies, applications and services that enable users to interact and personalize websites. The derivative term Library 2.0 was proposed in the mid-2000s. This article reviews how public libraries have made attempts to renew their services by adopting Web 2.0 technologies. The research material mainly consist...
Public governance is one of the most important topics in public administration and political science worldwide. It is of special importance to many Asian countries struggling with governance issues related to environmental concerns, democracy, service delivery, and economic growth. The purpose of these innovations is to bring about radical governan...
This book provides a contextual view of innovations in public governance. Public governance is about coordination and the use of various forms of institutional arrangements in policy-making processes to pursue the common good. In practice the improvements and radical changes in governance structures and processes are met through ‘governance innovat...
In this book we discuss innovations in public governance. Public governance is about coordination and the use of various forms of institutional arrangements in the policy-making and related processes to pursue collective interest. As this book provides highlights from two continents and various societal contexts, we pay special attention to context...
In this book we discuss innovations in public governance in Asian countries. Our approach is contextual, innovations being discussed in their societal, political and administrative contexts with a special focus on both conditions for innovativeness and innovations actually introduced in various Asian countries. The purpose of these innovations is t...
In this chapter we analyze business networks as a part of a multi-domain innovation ecology, which includes global production and innovation ecosystems, institutional network facilitators, and local communities and users. Their interplay is a reflection of the reconfiguration of inter-sectoral relations, in which business, government, and citizens...
Compared with coverage of organizational innovation, public sector financial innovation has tended to be neglected in the literature. When it has been considered, the strong focus of classical public finance for optimal taxation and tax types has overshadowed new and interesting developments in other areas of public finance. In this book alternativ...
This article provides a brief introduction to Web 2.0 and its gradual adoption in public services and governance. Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of Web-based communities, networks and hosted services, which facilitates interaction between users. Since the invention of the concept of Web 2.0, version numbering has been attached to various a...
Due to increased cross-boundary flows of resources, local governments have become more concerned with global economic development. In this regard, in this paper, the author discusses how globalisation and related intercity competition pose challenges to the development of cities. The objective is to describe innovative ways of dealing with global i...
This chapter provides a brief introduction to Web 2.0 and its gradual adoption in public services and governance. Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of Web-based communities, networks and hosted services, which facilitates interaction between users. Since the invention of the concept of Web 2.0 version numbering has been attached to various ac...
Taking a narrow view, public finance means the provision of money for public expenditures by taxation, charges and borrowing (Bannock and Manser 1999). Public finance can also be conceptualised in a more functional way to include drafting and implementing relevant tax laws, safeguarding public money, managing public budgets, selling government bond...
Osaka City and Osaka Prefecture introduced several large-scale business site development projects in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Tsuda Science Hills, Rinku Town and Technoport Osaka. The idea was to claim Osaka’s share of anticipated growth boosted by the internationalisation of business and high-tech development, but eventually these investments...
Osaka City and Osaka Prefecture introduced several large-scale business site and technopole development projects in the 1980s and 1990s that appeared to be failures. This development was designed by the politico-administrative establishment of the Osaka area in order to claim their share of anticipated global economic growth. The case of Osaka sugg...
The logic of service delivery is changing profoundly due to technological, organisational, institutional and social innovations. This development paves the way for new forms of interaction and socio-economic composition in social and economic life. In this article we provide an overview of the on-going service transformation and apply it to public...
The objective of this article is to provide an overview of recent urban u-community development. The original English term 'ubiquitous' comes from the Latin, meaning 'existing everywhere'. It first became widely used in the IT field after Mark Weiser coined a term 'ubiquitous computing' in the late 1980s. Due to the internet revolution and more rec...
This article provides a description of the portal and web sites of the city of Helsinki, in which the main categories that structure the description are based on the assessment scheme presented in Digital Governance in Municipalities Worldwide. They are content, e-services, e-participation, usability, and security and privacy. The analysis show tha...
New public management and the more recent concept of new public governance have become the dominant management doctrines in the public sector. Public organizations have become increasingly network-like units with various governance relations with actors from the public, business, and voluntary sectors. Their organization is based more on networks t...
In this paper I briefly discuss the preconditions of democratic e-governance, which in this context emphasizes the role of technology in government-citizen interaction designed along the principles of participatory
democracy.
Drawing mainly on the ideas of Manuel Castells, this article discusses how globalization and informatization condition the development of public libraries. To explore this issue, recent public library strategies developed in Britain and Finland are analyzed. The analysis demonstrates how public libraries stand for structures that support and consol...
New public management and the more recent concept of new public governance have become the dominant management doctrines in the public sector. Public organizations have become increasingly network-like units with various governance relations with actors from the public, business, and voluntary sectors. Their organization is based more on networks t...
The success of public organizations depends increasingly on how efficiently they utilize internal and external knowledge resources in adjusting to contextual changes. This requires a special emphasis on strategic knowledge management. Referring to the theoretical and empirical works of Nonaka, Blackler, Daft and Lengel, this contribution considers...
The concept of governance has its roots in the changing role of the state and in a managerialist view of the operations of public administrations. These two discourses have been challenged by another approach, which could be called democratic governance. It emphasizes the interactions between citizens, political representatives and administrative m...
In this paper, the transformation of Kista from a high-tech industrial park to a science city is described. Kista's transformation into a science city in the early 2000s was quick and well-managed. Kista gained international recognition as the boldest venture of the new generation of science cities. To make this new science city come true, the core...
The changing role of the state and a managerialist view of the operations of public-sector organizations gave rise to the idea of new public governance. Gradually, more citizen-centered views of governance also emerged, reflecting a need to strengthen the role of citizens and communities in governance processes at different institutional levels. Th...
This article highlights the present state of development of the global competition between high-tech centres. Special attention is paid to science parks as a development policy option and the extent to which this policy has been adapted in the USA and major European and Asian countries. Another important framing theme of the article is to outline t...
This article outlines the concept of u-government. The objective is to analyze the key aspects of u-government development policy. The empirical section starts with a brief description of examples of u-government initiatives in different parts of the world. The last section of the article focuses on u-government initiatives and services in the Finn...