Handbook on city and regional leadership / edited by Markku Sotarauta, Andrew Beer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Sotarauta, Markku, editor.

Beer, Andrew, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in urban studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--United States.

City planning.

Urban policy--United States.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

"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. Deepening 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

PART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT

1 Introduction to city and regional leadership / Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer

2 Place, city, regional, rural ... leadership: a review / Andrew Beer, Markku Sotarauta and Karen Ayles

PART II THEORETICAL AND THEMATIC AREAS

3 Old wine in a new bottle: Revisiting organisational conceptions of leadership to understand what place leaders 'actually' do to make things happen / Alyson Nicholds

4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics / Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani

5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose / John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds

6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil society leadership interaction with political leadership in local development / Oto Potluka

7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities / Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala

8 Place-based leadership 'beyond place': the rise of international city diplomacy / Robin Hambleton

9 Combinatorial power and place leadership / Markku Sotarauta

PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES

10 From coal-mining to data-mining: the role of leadership in the emergence of a regional innovation system in an old industrial region / Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň

11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership in Italian industrial districts / Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini

12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and path development in peripheral regions / Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen

13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment / Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth

14 Establishing leadership in a 'busy' governance structure / Martin Quinn

15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development: perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions / Sergio Montero and Andrés M. Medina-Garzón

PART IV METHODOLOGY

16 Theory, methods and innovation in the study of place leadership: a review of the opportunity / Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving

17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges / Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta

18 Action research as a methodology for the construction of territorial leadership / James Karlsen and Miren Larrea

19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership / Helen Dinmore and Andrew Beer

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78897-968-0