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Emerging Technologies and Organizations for Urban Resilience

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This chapter investigates the research question from the perspectives of organizational models. Its objective is to build a rough framework for further investigation. Particular attention is on tensions between those related to Mark II sciences and new environmental material sciences. This chapter introduces the attributes of “mimic of nature (environment)” and “integration into the design (sustainability)” to address environmental material sciences. These attributes will shift the tensions related to the Mark II industrial sciences. This study starts with the two conflicting theories that underlie urban resilience’s description by Orr and Topa (Current Issues in Economics and Finance 12, 2006). They are the escalation model of entrepreneur firms (Sutton in Technology and market structure. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1998) and transaction-cost-based governance economies (Pisano in Administrative Science Quarterly 35: 153–176, 1990; Williamson in Journal of Law and Economics 22: 233–261, 1979). While conflicting with each other, they contribute to the urban economic resilience when they add a variety to the market. This examination will explain why and how a given economic system with a set of components transforms into another system.

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    This description is cited from Okada (2019, p. 7).

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    The exception of open-access policy is the privacy considerations on identifiable data and biosecurity issues. See, Contreas (1992).

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Okada, E. (2021). Emerging Technologies and Organizations for Urban Resilience. In: Management of Science-Intensive Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64042-2_3

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