Smart City Gnosys

Smart city article details

Title	Smart Cities And Product-Service Systems—A Conceptual Framework For Urban Sustainability
ID_Doc	49377
Authors	Paalosmaa T.
Year	2025
Published	IET Smart Cities, 7, 1
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/smc2.70005
Abstract	This conceptual paper delves into the validity of product-service systems (PSS) in driving smart city development. Existing research often treats smart cities as primarily technology-driven constructs, overlooking how organisational measures and strategies such as PSS can contribute to their sustainability ambitions and, thus, smart city initiatives. Through an integrative literature review of selected 145 academic papers across smart cities, sustainability, innovation, digitalisation and product-service systems, this paper introduces a framework that maps PSS onto six core dimensions of the Smart City concept—dimensions identified from the previous research, never before presented together. The findings reveal that PSS enables organisations to transcend beyond isolated organisation focused sustainability driven solutions into wider smart urban surroundings and capabilities. The framework emphasises how PSS can contribute to environmental goals, governance reforms, social inclusion, and economic resilience, thus, being able to provide value for both private and public actors, and citizens. The paper addresses a key research gap and calls for empirical validation to further study how PSS can contribute as a scalable and designable enabler of smart city development. © 2025 The Author(s). IET Smart Cities published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Author Keywords	city design; governance; planning & policy; smart cities; smart cities applications

Similar Articles

Id	Similarity	Authors	Title	Published
53854	0.911	Tura N.; Ojanen V.	Sustainability-Oriented Innovations In Smart Cities: A Systematic Review And Emerging Themes	Cities, 126 (2022)
10343	0.906	Agbali, M; Trillo, C; Ibrahim, IA; Arayici, Y; Fernando, T	Are Smart Innovation Ecosystems Really Seeking To Meet Citizens' Needs? Insights From The Stakeholders' Vision On Smart City Strategy Implementation	SMART CITIES, 2, 2 (2019)
51487	0.901	Castagna A.G.; Strauhs F.D.R.	Smart Sustainable Cities: A Meta-Analysis Of Concepts And Discourses In The Literature; [Cidades Inteligentes E Sustentáveis: Metaanálise Sobre Conceitos E Discursos Na Literatura]; [Ciudades Inteligentes Y Sostenibles: Metaanálisis De Conceptos Y Discursos En La Literatura]	Revista de Gestao Social e Ambiental, 18, 2 (2024)
56436	0.901	Ateeq A.; Milhem M.; Alzoraiki M.; Beshr B.; Almeer S.; Ali S.A.	The Rise Of Smart Cities: Integrating Technology For Sustainable Urban Development	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 568 (2025)
59790	0.9	Allam Z.; Newman P.	Unveiling The Smart City: How Smart Is It?	Cities and Nature, Part F345 (2023)
53865	0.899	Khare A.; Beckman T.	Sustainable And Smart Cities: Governance, Economy And Society	Sustainable and Smart Cities: Governance, Economy and Society (2025)
43406	0.899	Komninos N.; Tsampoulatidis I.; Kakderi C.; Nikolopoulos S.; Kompatsiaris I.	Projects For Smart Cities: Ecosystems, Connected Intelligence And Innovation For The Radical Transformation Of Cities	Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 294 (2022)
59428	0.899	Yigitcanlar, T; Kamruzzaman, M; Buys, L; Ioppolo, G; Sabatini-Marques, J; da Costa, EM; Yun, JJ	Understanding 'Smart Cities': Intertwining Development Drivers With Desired Outcomes In A Multidimensional Framework	CITIES, 81 (2018)
49498	0.899	Pierce, P; Ricciardi, F; Zardini, A	Smart Cities As Organizational Fields: A Framework For Mapping Sustainability-Enabling Configurations	SUSTAINABILITY, 9, 9 (2017)
38874	0.898	Vu K.N.; Nygaard C.A.; Glackin S.	Navigating The Institutionalisation Of Smart Technologies For Urban Sustainability: A Grounded Theory Approach	Cities, 161 (2025)