Role of Good Governance and Resistance Economy in Urban Development

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

Today, urban economy has gained a high importance, so that city geographical area should have a strategic plan on the basis of their opportunities and strengths to proceed on the path of urban restructuring in terms of their advantages. In this article, good governance along with resistance economy are considered as strategic plans for urban development. Therefore, this research with an attitude based on descriptive analysis, first, uses quantitative techniques and according to theoretical foundations and previous studies, proposes a model based on the effect of good governance on relationship between social capital and resistance economy on the one hand, and urban management and development, on the other hand, and then studies relations between variables with the help of structural equations method and SmartPLS software. To collect necessary data, the author used questionnaire and to determine their reliability and validity, pre-tests were used. To evaluate validity, convergent validity method with the application of average variance extracted was used and to determine reliability, composite reliability method was used. Findings show that social capital has a positive and significant effect on resistance economy with 0/579 coefficient, on urban management with 0/440 coefficient. Also, resistance economy has a positive and significant effect on urban management with 0/546 coefficient. Also, the results of the analysis by considering good governances moderating variable show the value of the effect of social on urban management equals 0/631and urban development, 0/629 and the value of the effect of resistance economy on urban management equals 0/645 and on urban development, 0/649.

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