Chen Shaohan, Kamarudin Khairul Manami
College of Art, Guilin University of Technology, 541006 Guilin, Guangxi, China.
Faculty of Design & Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Heliyon. 2024 Oct 1;10(19):e38772. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e38772. eCollection 2024 Oct 15.
The importance of metropolitan governance and stakeholder collaboration in sustainable urban development (SUD) is well recognized. However, collaboration among stakeholders is dynamic, and the relationship between metropolitan governance and stakeholder dynamics, including value co-creation and conflict, remains underexplored. This study aims to address this gap by examining the causal relationships among metropolitan governance, stakeholder value co-creation and conflict through the lens of the triple bottom line (TBL) of sustainability. Using a questionnaire survey, this study collected 467 valid responses through a combination of probability and quota sampling and analyzed the data using Structural Equation Modeling. The results indicated that stakeholder value co-creation is positively influenced by TBL dimensions and metropolitan governance, thereby simultaneously promoting SUD and generating potential conflicts that constrain SUD. The study further evaluated the effectiveness of stakeholder value co-creation as a mediating variable and found that it has a unique suppressing effect on the relationship between environmental sustainability and conflict. The findings suggested that environmental sustainability-driven governance initiatives are crucial to containing conflict and fostering value co-creation among stakeholders. Theoretically, this study enriches the discourse on SUD literature by quantifying the interactions between TBL, metropolitan governance and stakeholder dynamics. Practically, it provides certain implications for relevant practitioners by proposing an argument that governance initiatives can be aligned with the shifting priorities toward environmental sustainability.
大都市治理和利益相关者合作在可持续城市发展（SUD）中的重要性已得到广泛认可。然而，利益相关者之间的合作是动态的，大都市治理与利益相关者动态之间的关系，包括价值共创和冲突，仍未得到充分探索。本研究旨在通过从可持续性的三重底线（TBL）视角审视大都市治理、利益相关者价值共创和冲突之间的因果关系来填补这一空白。本研究通过问卷调查，采用概率抽样和配额抽样相结合的方式收集了467份有效回复，并使用结构方程模型对数据进行了分析。结果表明，利益相关者价值共创受到TBL维度和大都市治理的积极影响，从而在促进可持续城市发展的同时产生了限制可持续城市发展的潜在冲突。该研究进一步评估了利益相关者价值共创作为中介变量的有效性，发现它对环境可持续性与冲突之间的关系具有独特的抑制作用。研究结果表明，以环境可持续性为驱动的治理举措对于遏制冲突和促进利益相关者之间的价值共创至关重要。从理论上讲，本研究通过量化TBL、大都市治理和利益相关者动态之间的相互作用，丰富了关于可持续城市发展文献的论述。在实践中，它通过提出治理举措可以与向环境可持续性转变的优先事项保持一致的观点，为相关从业者提供了一定的启示。
