La Sustainable urban management: Perspectives for a possible city within the framework of the institutional theory

Abstract

City and Organization are terms assumed in this essay to identify the links between urban management and administrative management, within the framework of organizational theory, with special interest on the institutional and legitimacy theories. The bureaucratic state manages the city, becoming a common element between urban and institutional theory. Assuming this premise, municipal structures would have to adapt to these contexts by reexamining both theories in a transdisciplinary environment. Sustainable urban management, which is linked to institutional strategic processes, makes the cities the space to adapt to such changes and complexities. The ability to manage them, must be framed in divergent urban and organizational theories capable of evolving while adapting to each other. Perhaps the challenge relies on how to do it, therefore this essay is intended to set out an agenda for a research protocol, in order to understand why the organizational management has transcended the urban sphere nowadays to talk about strategic management for sustainable cities.