Martin De Jong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin De Jong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | De Jong |
| SIGNATURE | DE JONG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5557-1666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Bridging circularity and inclusion in urban metabolic transitions: Through the lens of waste system evolution in Almere, the Netherlands
Waste is a key material stock and flow in urban metabolism, and circular economy (CE) strategies are increasingly promoted to enhance resource efficiency and reduce environmental burdens. Yet CE practices do not always evolve in harmony with dynamic social needs, leading to exclusionary outcomes. To examine how circularity and inclusion interact in urban metabolic transitions, this paper analyses the evolution of Almere's waste system from the 19…
A Universal and Actionable Measure of Corporate Sustainability for Strategic Decision Making
Managers require a universal, comparable, and decision‐useful measure of corporate sustainability that can reliably inform business strategy, yet such a tool remains absent in the literature and current practice. This paper introduces a comprehensive and operational metric—grounded in Goertz's Basic Framework for developing social science concept and fuzzy logic—that defines what full sustainability represents and offers a standardized approach t…
Evaluating inclusive policy: A comparative study of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Gothenburg
This research critically examines how inclusive policies are evaluated and to what extent these evaluations support goals of inclusion. Using a comparative case study of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Gothenburg, the study explores evaluation practices across three dimensions of policy success: process, programmatic and political success. It compares nine inclusive city initiatives based on 22 policy documents, 9 municipal website news, 17 open-ended int…
Cultural and institutional determinants in city-branding practices: Evidence from three Saudi cities
Place-branding strategies are increasingly used in cities and territories to improve reputation, attract investors, realise urban transformation and reach economic development goals. Most scholars advocate for a participatory approach, with the national government playing a limited role. However, multi-level governance models are used in culturally and administratively centralised countries like Saudi Arabia, where the central government also sig…
Between branding and being: How are inclusive city branding and inclusive city practices related?
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between being an inclusive city and branding oneself as such, as more cities adopt the inclusive city concept as part of their brand identity. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds theory by introducing a typology that categorizes cities based on their level of inclusion and degree of branding, supplemented by an analysis of the branding practices and identities. Integra…
Towards an ecological metaphor for regenerative circular economies
Urban circular economy initiatives: Development and application of a unified theoretical framework
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
Riyadh: King of gigaprojects can Riyadh's dramatic place rebranding realize path-breaking and profound urban transformations
Smart cities as spatial manifestations of 21st century capitalism
Globally, smart cities attract billions of dollars in investment annually, with related market opportunities forecast to grow year-on-year. The enormous resources poured into their development consist of financial capital, but also natural, human and social resources converted into infrastructure and real estate. The latter act as physical capital storage and sites for the creation of digital products and services expected to generate the highest…
Governing disruptive technologies for inclusive development in cities: A systematic literature review
Cities are increasingly adopting advanced technologies to address complex challenges. Applying technologies such as information and communication technology, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and autonomous systems in cities' design, planning, and management can cause disruptive changes in their social, economic, and environmental composition. Through a systematic literature review, this research develops a conceptual model linking (1)…
How different can smart cities be? A typology of smart cities in China
China, renowned for being one of the world's largest smart city testing fields, has witnessed the emergence of numerous smart cities. Existing publications highlight the diversity in smart city development, wherein cities with different contexts and institutional factors exhibit distinct characteristics. To delve deeper into this subject, we employed a mixed methods approach to classify 49 Chinese smart cities and subsequently developed a typolog…
Will the true inclusive city rise? Mapping the strengths and weaknesses of the city ranking systems
Ranking cities is considered an effective instrument to rate and qualify the specific image of cities and encourage them to define and improve sustainable development strategies, but it has also been criticized for generating biased outcomes. Recently, the number of rankings for inclusive cities is rising, in fact along with growing investments in inclusive city projects and initiatives. The inclusive city rankings have both the strength to enhan…
Thin’ Regional Identities: Economic Instrumentality or Pathway to Thickness? The Case of the Pearl River Delta
Against the background of regional development, this article analyses the rise and fall of ‘thin identities’, which tend to be utilitarian and deployed to promote regional development. We focus on two constructed regional identities in the Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) in China: Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Guangdong‐Hong Kong‐Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA). We analyse the adoption of these identities through news items published in newspapers in…
Can creative cities be inclusive too? How do Dubai, Amsterdam and Toronto navigate the tensions between creativity and inclusiveness in their adoption of city brands and policy initiatives
Creative cities tend to generate higher levels of innovation and economic growth as well as be vibrant places to live. Many cities in the world have adopted the creative city label to realise these benefits. It is not certain, and in fact disputed by authors such as Richard Florida (2017), that creative cities will also show high levels of inclusion. Inclusiveness is a multi-dimensional concept that needs to be unbundled before its connection wit…
From city promotion via city marketing to city branding: Examining urban strategies in 23 Chinese cities
City promotion, city marketing and city branding are all frequently mentioned and examined in the literature on urban governance. Based on the goals and characteristics of different city branding strategies, this study identifies a growing level of sophistication from city promotion via city marketing to city branding and proposes that the degree of urban development of cities is positively related to the use of branding strategies. This proposit…
Bypassing institutional barriers: New types of transit-oriented development in China
China is often viewed as an emerging experimental base for transit-oriented development (TOD) practices because of its rapid urban growth and development of mass transit networks. The implementation of TOD can be heavily influenced by institutional barriers to urban growth. However, some newly emerging types of TOD practice allow planners and decision-makers to bypass some of the institutional barriers and achieve a certain degree of integrated d…
Legal enclaves as a test environment for innovative products: Toward legally resilient experimentation policies1
Many countries adhere to the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development creed that innovation is good for the economy. Experiments are often used to intentionally create space for innovation. Decisions allowing experiments result in temporary legal enclaves for a few, excluding many others. Therefore, they come with risks. The aim of this article is to provide a set of guidelines that help improve the legal resilience of experimentati…
Assembling Sustainable Smart City Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspective
This Special Issue begins with a middle-range theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between theorizing in smart city development studies and some of the foundational assumptions underpinning transition management and system innovation research, human geography, spatial planning, and critical urban scholarship. This interdisciplinary theoretical formulation details our evidence-based interpretation of how smart city tra…
The multi-level governance of formulating regional brand identities: Evidence from three Mega City Regions in China
Economic city branding and stakeholder involvement in China: Attempt of a medium-sized city to trigger industrial transformation
Among known studies of city branding by Chinese megacities to realise urban transformation, there is no explorative study of how smaller Chinese cities engage in city branding and attempt to trigger industrial transformation. In response, this article presents an in-depth case study of city branding processes in a medium-sized Chinese city. Roles, resources and interactions among the city's stakeholders are analysed during the brand creation and …
Inclusive City: The Theory and Practice of Creating Shared Urban Prosperity
Urban experimentation and institutional arrangements
Currently little is known about how institutional arrangements co-evolve with urban experimentation. This paper mobilizes neo-institutional literature and recent urban experimentation literature as a framework to explore how and why institutional arrangements differ across urban contexts. Empirically the paper focusses on smart city initiatives in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Ningbo. These three cities are frontrunners in adopting a comprehensive smart…
Evolution in city branding practices in China's Pearl River Delta since the year 2000
The psychology of local officials: Explaining strategic behavior in the Chinese Target Responsibility System
This article shows how a deeper understanding of the psychological roots of strategic behavior in the targets approach can provide a fresh perspective for policy makers and public administrators to alter behavior. It presents how the Target Responsibility System (TRS) is deployed in China, identifies what types of strategic behavior emerge in the TRS, and explores what psychological insights can be drawn to explain the emergence of strategic beha…
The introduction of public–private partnerships in the Netherlands as a case of institutional bricolage: The evolution of an Anglo‐Saxon transplant in a Rhineland context
In this contribution, the introduction of contractual public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the Netherlands, more specifically the use of Design, Build, Finance, Maintenance, and Operations (DBFMO) contracts in Dutch infrastructure management, is analysed using a specific strand within the policy transfer and institutional transplantation literature: that of ‘institutional bricolage’. This perspective states that policy transplants come to fit th…
The rise of the Global Reporting Initiative: A Case of Institutional Entrepreneurship
Since its conception in 1999, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has become a leading template for voluntary sustainability reporting by companies. Emerging on the crest of the debate about corporate social responsibility, appropriate roles for business, government, and civil society in the sustainability transition, and private forms of global governance, it is also a descendant of 1970s social movements. Drawing on extensive empirical data c…
A Proposal for Clustering the Dimensions of National Culture
Since Hofstede introduced his approach to understanding cultural differences through dimensions of national culture, various authors have presented their own dimensions, sometimes similar, sometimes different, and sometimes partially overlapping. The status quo in the development of research on cultural dimensions can now be qualified by two words: enriched and messy. Some scholars have attempted to bring the most likely common denominators of th…
Spatial spillover effects of transport infrastructure: Evidence from Chinese regions
The rise and fall of Public–Private Partnerships in China: A path-dependent approach
Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Speculations
The foundations for governance in an information age are developing through the World Wide Web as it becomes the principal electronic public gateway into government organizations. Governmental openness is now important to a variety of strategies for governmental reform. The Web (a) makes government more efficient; (b) facilitates the functioning of new network-like arrangements between public organizations, the private sector, and citizens; and (…
Applying Policy Network Theory to Policy-Making in China: The Case of Urban Health Insurance Reform
In this article, we explore whether policy network theory can be applied in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We carried out a literature review of how this approach has already been dealt with in the Chinese policy sciences thus far. We then present the key concepts and research approach in policy networks theory in the Western literature and try these on a Chinese case to see the fit. We follow this with a description and analysis of the po…
Evolution in city branding practices in China's Pearl River Delta since the year 2000
The introduction of public–private partnerships in the Netherlands as a case of institutional bricolage: The evolution of an Anglo‐Saxon transplant in a Rhineland context
In this contribution, the introduction of contractual public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the Netherlands, more specifically the use of Design, Build, Finance, Maintenance, and Operations (DBFMO) contracts in Dutch infrastructure management, is analysed using a specific strand within the policy transfer and institutional transplantation literature: that of ‘institutional bricolage’. This perspective states that policy transplants come to fit th…
Economic city branding and stakeholder involvement in China: Attempt of a medium-sized city to trigger industrial transformation
Among known studies of city branding by Chinese megacities to realise urban transformation, there is no explorative study of how smaller Chinese cities engage in city branding and attempt to trigger industrial transformation. In response, this article presents an in-depth case study of city branding processes in a medium-sized Chinese city. Roles, resources and interactions among the city's stakeholders are analysed during the brand creation and …
Debate: Rose's ‘10 steps’: why process messiness, history and culture are not vague and banal
From city promotion via city marketing to city branding: Examining urban strategies in 23 Chinese cities
City promotion, city marketing and city branding are all frequently mentioned and examined in the literature on urban governance. Based on the goals and characteristics of different city branding strategies, this study identifies a growing level of sophistication from city promotion via city marketing to city branding and proposes that the degree of urban development of cities is positively related to the use of branding strategies. This proposit…
Legal enclaves as a test environment for innovative products: Toward legally resilient experimentation policies1
Many countries adhere to the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development creed that innovation is good for the economy. Experiments are often used to intentionally create space for innovation. Decisions allowing experiments result in temporary legal enclaves for a few, excluding many others. Therefore, they come with risks. The aim of this article is to provide a set of guidelines that help improve the legal resilience of experimentati…
The multi-level governance of formulating regional brand identities: Evidence from three Mega City Regions in China
The institutional causes of environmental protests in China: A Perspective From Common Pool Resource Management
This article approaches environmental protest in China as a failure in cooperative common pool resource management and engages with the institutional design principles developed by Elinor Ostrom to identify underlying institutional causes. The results show that, at the constitutional choice level, the fundamental ideology, and political institutions of China do not support a nested environmental governance system that involves non-governmental po…
Bypassing institutional barriers: New types of transit-oriented development in China
China is often viewed as an emerging experimental base for transit-oriented development (TOD) practices because of its rapid urban growth and development of mass transit networks. The implementation of TOD can be heavily influenced by institutional barriers to urban growth. However, some newly emerging types of TOD practice allow planners and decision-makers to bypass some of the institutional barriers and achieve a certain degree of integrated d…
Gaming the future of an urban network
Will the true inclusive city rise? Mapping the strengths and weaknesses of the city ranking systems
Ranking cities is considered an effective instrument to rate and qualify the specific image of cities and encourage them to define and improve sustainable development strategies, but it has also been criticized for generating biased outcomes. Recently, the number of rankings for inclusive cities is rising, in fact along with growing investments in inclusive city projects and initiatives. The inclusive city rankings have both the strength to enhan…
Political and ethical aspects in the ethnography of policy translation: Research experiences from Turkey and China
A currently burgeoning literature in planning and policy studies engages with the travel of policy models across countries and sites through novel concepts such as policy translation, policy mobility, and mutations. Increasingly, this literature calls for ethnographic methods to study the travel of policy models. Such methods require various degrees of researcher's participation in the policy process. As a result, ethnographers become entangled i…
The growth impact of transport infrastructure investment: A regional analysis for China (1978–2008)
This study aims to explore the impact of transport capital stock on economic growth in Chinese regions. Using panel data for a sample of 28 provinces and municipalities over the period 1978–2008, the empirical findings show that there is significant spatial variation in the productivity effects of transport infrastructure in China. The highest output elasticity in the connection provinces of the central region means that transport investments the…
Urban circular economy initiatives: Development and application of a unified theoretical framework
Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
The psychology of local officials: Explaining strategic behavior in the Chinese Target Responsibility System
This article shows how a deeper understanding of the psychological roots of strategic behavior in the targets approach can provide a fresh perspective for policy makers and public administrators to alter behavior. It presents how the Target Responsibility System (TRS) is deployed in China, identifies what types of strategic behavior emerge in the TRS, and explores what psychological insights can be drawn to explain the emergence of strategic beha…
Does inequality in educational attainment matter for China's economic growth
How different can smart cities be? A typology of smart cities in China
China, renowned for being one of the world's largest smart city testing fields, has witnessed the emergence of numerous smart cities. Existing publications highlight the diversity in smart city development, wherein cities with different contexts and institutional factors exhibit distinct characteristics. To delve deeper into this subject, we employed a mixed methods approach to classify 49 Chinese smart cities and subsequently developed a typolog…
Can creative cities be inclusive too? How do Dubai, Amsterdam and Toronto navigate the tensions between creativity and inclusiveness in their adoption of city brands and policy initiatives
Creative cities tend to generate higher levels of innovation and economic growth as well as be vibrant places to live. Many cities in the world have adopted the creative city label to realise these benefits. It is not certain, and in fact disputed by authors such as Richard Florida (2017), that creative cities will also show high levels of inclusion. Inclusiveness is a multi-dimensional concept that needs to be unbundled before its connection wit…
Moving up the Hierarchy: Kinship and Career Advancement in a Chinese township
Through which mechanisms do officials in rural areas in China reach the higher cadre positions in government bureaucracies? Literature on career advancement variously points to the relevance of human capital, social capital and political loyalty, but does not provide unambiguous answers as to which type of capital plays which role in the mobility of government officials. Adopting social network analysis, the authors conducted fieldwork in a towns…
Sluttish and Domineering or Prudish and Obedient: Women in Bilderdijk's Historical Works
The Theory and Practice of Institutional Transplantation: Experiences with the Transfer of Policy Institutions
Inevitably, at a panel discussion not too long ago comparing planning cultures the discussion turned on the issue of globalisation. As a member of the panel, this author asked those in the audience who lived and/or worked in a country different from their country of origin to raise their hands. About half of the audience of well over one hundred academic teachers and researchers from all comers of the world, the present author included did so. Ne…
Families of Nations and Institutional Transplantation
Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Age of the Web: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Speculations
The foundations for governance in an information age are developing through the World Wide Web as it becomes the principal electronic public gateway into government organizations. Governmental openness is now important to a variety of strategies for governmental reform. The Web (a) makes government more efficient; (b) facilitates the functioning of new network-like arrangements between public organizations, the private sector, and citizens; and (…
Gaming the future of an urban network
Debate: Rose's ‘10 steps’: why process messiness, history and culture are not vague and banal
The rise of the Global Reporting Initiative: A Case of Institutional Entrepreneurship
Since its conception in 1999, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has become a leading template for voluntary sustainability reporting by companies. Emerging on the crest of the debate about corporate social responsibility, appropriate roles for business, government, and civil society in the sustainability transition, and private forms of global governance, it is also a descendant of 1970s social movements. Drawing on extensive empirical data c…
The rise and fall of Public–Private Partnerships in China: A path-dependent approach
Implementing Evidence-Based Policy in a Network Setting: Road Safety Policy in the Netherlands
In the early 1990s, in order to improve road safety in The Netherlands, the Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV) developed an evidence-based "Sustainable Safety" concept. Based on this concept, Dutch road safety policy, was seen as successful and as a best practice in Europe. In The Netherlands, the policy context has now changed from a sectoral policy setting towards a fragmented network in which safety is a facet of other transport-related…
Applying Policy Network Theory to Policy-Making in China: The Case of Urban Health Insurance Reform
In this article, we explore whether policy network theory can be applied in the People's Republic of China (PRC). We carried out a literature review of how this approach has already been dealt with in the Chinese policy sciences thus far. We then present the key concepts and research approach in policy networks theory in the Western literature and try these on a Chinese case to see the fit. We follow this with a description and analysis of the po…
Universités et enjeux territoriaux: Une comparaison internationale de l'économie de la connaissance
Appelées de plus en plus à participer à des projets de développement basés sur la connaissance, les universités subissent de fortes pressions, pour se réorganiser autour de pôles d'innovation, s'ouvrant davantage vers l'extérieur et favorisant les interactions avec le territoire. Les universités, il est vrai, ont déjà fait l'objet d'études, de réflexions ou de critiques, par le passé. De nouveaux enjeux les ont remis à l'ordre du jour, un peu par…
The future of the modal split in China’s greenest city: Assessing options for integrating Dalian’s fragmented public transport system
Dalian used to have a very favorable modal split (for public transport) and had the honor of being an environmentally friendly city among its peers in China only a few years ago. However, momentous and when it comes to sustainability rather deleterious is evolving in the past five years or so: automobiles have flooded the city along with car-friendly policies being promulgated at both the central and local levels of government. Consequently, the …
Applying Western decision-making theory to the study of transport infrastructure development in China: The case of the Harbin metro
In recent decades, China has undergone massive urban transformation, an important component of which is transport infrastructure development. Although Western observers often hail China’s decision making on megaprojects as effective and efficient, this image deserves scrutiny. Political power and decision-making processes in China are not as centralized as many tend to believe, the field of policy actors can be diffuse and issues can be highly co…
The growth impact of transport infrastructure investment: A regional analysis for China (1978–2008)
This study aims to explore the impact of transport capital stock on economic growth in Chinese regions. Using panel data for a sample of 28 provinces and municipalities over the period 1978–2008, the empirical findings show that there is significant spatial variation in the productivity effects of transport infrastructure in China. The highest output elasticity in the connection provinces of the central region means that transport investments the…
Explaining the organizational and contractual context of subway construction disasters in China: The case of Hangzhou
China has seen a number of serious infrastructure construction accidents in recent years. The focus of this paper will be on urban rail. Much has been written about the technical and circumstantial causes for these accidents, but relatively little about the organizational framework and contractual arrangements which constitute the context within which safety measures fail to be monitored and enforced effectively during such construction projects.…
Spatial spillover effects of transport infrastructure: Evidence from Chinese regions
Identifying Organizational and Contractual Drivers behind Subway Construction Accidents in China: A Tale of Three Cities
In most Chinese metropolitan areas, ambitious investment programs in new urban subway networks are underway. The safety record of this nation-wide program is rather disturbing. Official reports have been drafted on the technical, organizational, and regulatory causes for the accidents that have occurred, identifying the violation of safety and labor regulations. In this article we will take this analysis one step further by systematically mapping…
A Proposal for Clustering the Dimensions of National Culture
Since Hofstede introduced his approach to understanding cultural differences through dimensions of national culture, various authors have presented their own dimensions, sometimes similar, sometimes different, and sometimes partially overlapping. The status quo in the development of research on cultural dimensions can now be qualified by two words: enriched and messy. Some scholars have attempted to bring the most likely common denominators of th…
Sustainable–smart–resilient–low carbon–eco–knowledge cities; making sense of a multitude of concepts promoting sustainable urbanization
What Makes Eco‐Transformation of Industrial Parks Take Off in China
This article focuses on the effects of policy instruments for developing viable eco‐industrial parks (EIPs) in China. We analyzed the root of China's national EIP program and inventoried the general instruments available to local authorities to shape and promote eco‐industrial development. Empirical research conducted in Tianjin Economic‐technological Development Area and Dalian Development Area led to the activities and actions conducted by loca…
Does inequality in educational attainment matter for China's economic growth
City branding in polycentric urban regions: Identification, profiling and transformation in the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr
In polycentric urban regions several distinct cities, none of which is dominant, cooperate and compete with each other to attract inhabitants and firms. In such settings city branding strategies do not solely affect one city, but the entire region. We examined how city branding in the face of ecological modernization, that is, delivering higher added economic value, while lowering environmental impacts, is playing out in the Dutch Randstad and th…
Moving up the Hierarchy: Kinship and Career Advancement in a Chinese township
Through which mechanisms do officials in rural areas in China reach the higher cadre positions in government bureaucracies? Literature on career advancement variously points to the relevance of human capital, social capital and political loyalty, but does not provide unambiguous answers as to which type of capital plays which role in the mobility of government officials. Adopting social network analysis, the authors conducted fieldwork in a towns…
The introduction of public–private partnerships in the Netherlands as a case of institutional bricolage: The evolution of an Anglo‐Saxon transplant in a Rhineland context
In this contribution, the introduction of contractual public–private partnerships (PPPs) in the Netherlands, more specifically the use of Design, Build, Finance, Maintenance, and Operations (DBFMO) contracts in Dutch infrastructure management, is analysed using a specific strand within the policy transfer and institutional transplantation literature: that of ‘institutional bricolage’. This perspective states that policy transplants come to fit th…
The institutional causes of environmental protests in China: A Perspective From Common Pool Resource Management
This article approaches environmental protest in China as a failure in cooperative common pool resource management and engages with the institutional design principles developed by Elinor Ostrom to identify underlying institutional causes. The results show that, at the constitutional choice level, the fundamental ideology, and political institutions of China do not support a nested environmental governance system that involves non-governmental po…
Political science (39 works) · Business (27 works) · Economics (25 works) · Sociology (22 works) · China (21 works) · Geography (19 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Law (13 works)