Assessing the Influence of Strategic Resources on the Quality of Life in Spanish Cities

Susana Iglesias-Antelo, Vicente López-López and Antonio Vázquez-Sanmartín
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Susana Iglesias-Antelo: Department of Business, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
Vicente López-López: Department of Management, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain
Antonio Vázquez-Sanmartín: Department of Management, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-19

Abstract: Quality of life (QoL) is both a main concern of good local governance and an indicator of city performance. A key question to answer is that of what resources have the potential to enhance city performance, thus providing added value to stakeholders. By adopting a resource-based view (RBV), this paper explores the relationships between a group of strategic resources (e-government, transparency, and reputation) and QoL in a sample of 78 Spanish municipalities. Our study makes a contribution by providing an original design of a set of relations among our own selected resources and between them and quality of life. In order to test those relations, we define and create four constructs by using four different data sources and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show a positive influence of resources on QoL, which is supported by a number of positive direct and indirect interactions among them. This means that municipalities with better strategic resources in local governments exhibit a higher level of quality of life.

Keywords: resource-based view; strategic resources; e-government; transparency; reputation; quality of life; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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