MANAGER’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE CITY DIGITALISATION STRATEGY – CASE OF POLISH SMALL AND COUNTY CITIES
MANAGER’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE CITY DIGITALISATION STRATEGY – CASE OF POLISH SMALL AND COUNTY CITIES

Summary/Abstract: Purpose – The aim of the study was to find out whether and how the current digitaltransformation is taken into account in the city’s sustainable development strategies, whatactions are taken and what are the attitudes of city board managers related to the city’sdigitalisation plans.Research method – An in-depth review of the literature on the issues of digital trans-formation in city development strategies was performed. The quantitative empirical studywas based on a questionnaire interview with city board managers of randomly selectedsmall and county cities, realized by telephone interview method (CATI) supported by theInternet interview method (CAWI).Results – The results obtained in the study made it possible to assess the degree ofinclusion of city digitisation plans in the sustainable development strategy, as well as togain knowledge about the attitudes of city management managers towards the need toinclude digitization plans in the city’s digital transformation strategy.Originality   / value   / implications   / recommendations – Indicating the existence of a relation-ship between the size of the city measured by the number of inhabitants and income percapita and the presence of digitalisation plans in their sustainable development strategies.Demonstrating that the presence of digitalisation plans in the sustainable development strat-egies of the studied cities depends on the attitudes of city managers towards digitalisation.

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