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دوره 41، شماره 3 - ( 1405 )
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دریافت: 1405/6/25 | پذیرش: 1405/8/7 | انتشار: 1405/8/15
دریافت: 1405/6/25 | پذیرش: 1405/8/7 | انتشار: 1405/8/15
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Mehrnia S, Ziaei N, Rezaei H, baniamerian H. (2026). Identifying and Prioritizing the Relative Advantage Parameters of Information Technology in Developing Urban Management Virtual Think Tanks: An Application of the Fuzzy Delphi Approach. , GeoRes. 41(3), 1001-1013.
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مهرنیا سیامک، ضیائی ناجی پژمان، رضایی حسین، بنی عامریان حامد.(1405). Identifying and Prioritizing the Relative Advantage Parameters of Information Technology in Developing Urban Management Virtual Think Tanks: An Application of the Fuzzy Delphi Approach , فصل‌نامه تحقیقات جغرافیایی. 41 (3) :1013-1001
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سیامک مهرنیا 
، ناجی پژمان ضیائی*1 ، حسین رضایی ، حامد بنی عامریان
، ناجی پژمان ضیائی*1 ، حسین رضایی ، حامد بنی عامریان
1- ، najipezhman.ziaei@iau.ac.ir
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Aims & Backgrounds: The institutional complexities and blockages of information flow in contemporary urban management have amplified the necessity of utilizing novel participatory platforms. The present study aimed to identify and prioritize the operational parameters for establishing virtual think tanks in urban management.
Methodology: Grounded in pragmatism and an inductive-deductive approach, this applied quantitative study was conducted from Autumn 2025 to Summer 2026 in the metropolises of Kermanshah and Sanandaj, Iran. Initially, 30 operational indicators were extracted from 41 core studies through a PRISMA-based systematic literature review. Using purposive criterion sampling, a multidisciplinary panel of 15 experts (senior municipal managers and faculty members) was formed. Data screening and prioritization were executed through Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Content Validity Index (CVI), followed by a single-round Fuzzy Delphi technique (with a 0.7 acceptance threshold), Kendall’s coefficient of concordance, and the non-parametric Friedman test.
Findings: Following the exclusion of “expanding impact range” and “reducing administrative hierarchy effects” during content validity screening, 28 operational indicators achieved consensus in the first Fuzzy Delphi round with defuzzified values exceeding 0.733 The Friedman test and Kendall’s W confirmed statistically significant prioritization. “Rapid and systematic program evaluation”, “interactive training sessions”, “developing facilitation techniques”, “team-building and networking”, and “expanding public participation” secured the highest fuzzy and Friedman ranks. Conversely, “AI-based digital representatives” and “inter-institutional coordination” ranked lowest.
Conclusion: The relative advantage of IT in urban virtual think tanks is fundamentally socio-technical, driven by soft capacity-building, interactive learning, and agile evaluation rather than algorithmic automation. Digitalization alone does not overcome bureaucratic fragmentation, and collective human agency strictly supersedes machine-driven decision-making in complex urban governance.
Methodology: Grounded in pragmatism and an inductive-deductive approach, this applied quantitative study was conducted from Autumn 2025 to Summer 2026 in the metropolises of Kermanshah and Sanandaj, Iran. Initially, 30 operational indicators were extracted from 41 core studies through a PRISMA-based systematic literature review. Using purposive criterion sampling, a multidisciplinary panel of 15 experts (senior municipal managers and faculty members) was formed. Data screening and prioritization were executed through Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Content Validity Index (CVI), followed by a single-round Fuzzy Delphi technique (with a 0.7 acceptance threshold), Kendall’s coefficient of concordance, and the non-parametric Friedman test.
Findings: Following the exclusion of “expanding impact range” and “reducing administrative hierarchy effects” during content validity screening, 28 operational indicators achieved consensus in the first Fuzzy Delphi round with defuzzified values exceeding 0.733 The Friedman test and Kendall’s W confirmed statistically significant prioritization. “Rapid and systematic program evaluation”, “interactive training sessions”, “developing facilitation techniques”, “team-building and networking”, and “expanding public participation” secured the highest fuzzy and Friedman ranks. Conversely, “AI-based digital representatives” and “inter-institutional coordination” ranked lowest.
Conclusion: The relative advantage of IT in urban virtual think tanks is fundamentally socio-technical, driven by soft capacity-building, interactive learning, and agile evaluation rather than algorithmic automation. Digitalization alone does not overcome bureaucratic fragmentation, and collective human agency strictly supersedes machine-driven decision-making in complex urban governance.