Handbook on City and Regional Leadership by Markku Sotarauta (English) Hardcover

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In this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectives.

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In this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectivesDeepening the scholarly debate on leadership in cities and regions, the Handbook combines theoretical discussion and empirical evidence within methodological development to present a state-of-the-art view of a rapidly emerging field of study, highlighting paths for future research. Chapters explore power, politics, policy-making, social corporate responsibility and international city diplomacy through the lens of leadership, covering leadership in different countries from a broad range of theoretical perspectives.This Handbook is a valuable resource for academics and students of regional studies, human and economic geography, and policy studies. The conceptual discussion and case studies from different parts of the world will provide valuable examples for scholars, policy-makers and practitioners seeking a better understanding of what it takes to mobilise and co-ordinate complex multi-actor constellations for improvement of their respective places.

Author Biography

Edited by Markku Sotarauta, Professor of Regional Development Studies, Urban and Regional Studies Group, Tampere University, Finland and Andrew Beer, Executive Dean and Professor, UniSA Business School, University of South Australia, Australia

Table of Contents

Contents:Preface xiPART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT1 Introduction to city and regional leadership 2Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer2 Place, city, regional, rural … leadership: a review 19Andrew Beer, Markku Sotarauta and Karen AylesPART II THEORETICAL AND THEMATIC AREAS3 Old wine in a new bottle: Revisiting organisationalconceptions of leadership to understand what place leaders'actually' do to make things happen 41Alyson Nicholds4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics 57Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose 71John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil societyleadership interaction with political leadership in local development 91Oto Potluka7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities 108Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala8 Place-based leadership 'beyond place': the rise of internationalcity diplomacy 131Robin Hambleton9 Combinatorial power and place leadership 152Markku SotarautaPART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES10 From coal-mining to data-mining: the role of leadership in theemergence of a regional innovation system in an old industrial region 168Jií Blaek and Viktor Kvto11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership inItalian industrial districts 187Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and pathdevelopment in peripheral regions 203Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment 226Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth14 Establishing leadership in a 'busy' governance structure 248Martin Quinn15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development:perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions 266Sergio Montero and Andrés M. Medina-GarzónPART IV METHODOLOGY16 Theory, methods and innovation in the study of placeleadership: a review of the opportunity 281Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges 302Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta18 Action research as a methodology for the construction ofterritorial leadership 324James Karlsen and Miren Larrea19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership 343Helen Dinmore and Andrew BeerIndex

Review

'I consider this edited volume to be more than a welcome contribution and a notorious collection for all scholars, keen to understand the theoretical grounding, practices, patterns and types of leadership, as well as the manifestation of that leadership in local and regional socio-economic development and policy.' -- Eduardo Oliveira, Eurasian Geography and Economics'The Handbook on City and Regional Leadership is the first comprehensive overview of place leadership in urban and regional research, edited by pioneers of the concept, Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer. Publication of the Handbook is very timely with the significant growth of research on the importance of agency in regional development in recent years. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics ranging from theoretical issues and empirical studies to methodological questions. It contains a rich and stimulating compilation of chapters and is a must-read for researchers as well as policy makers interested in promoting place leadership.'

Review Quote

'The role of city and regional leaders in the success of regions and cities has often been underestimated. In the Handbook on City and Regional Leadership, the editors have brought together seminal scholars who study this area. The book is a must read for academics and civic leaders alike who are interested in leadership and its impact on communities.'

Details ISBN1788979672 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1788979672 ISBN-13 9781788979672 Format Hardcover Pages 384 DEWEY 307.1216 Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Series Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Andrew Beer Publication Date 2021-02-22 AU Release Date 2021-02-22 NZ Release Date 2021-02-22 UK Release Date 2021-02-22 Edited by Andrew Beer Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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