Handbook on City and Regional Leadership

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

Contents:

Preface xi
PART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT
1 Introduction to city and regional leadership 2
Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer
2 Place, city, regional, rural … leadership: a review 19
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 41
Alyson Nicholds
4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics 57
Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani
5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose 71
John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds
6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil society
leadership interaction with political leadership in local development 91
Oto Potluka
7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities 108
Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala
8 Place-based leadership ‘beyond place’: the rise of international
city diplomacy 131
Robin Hambleton
9 Combinatorial power and place leadership 152
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 168
Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň
11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership in
Italian industrial districts 187
Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini
12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and path
development in peripheral regions 203
Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen
13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment 226
Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth
14 Establishing leadership in a ‘busy’ governance structure 248
Martin Quinn
15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development:
perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions 266
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 281
Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving
17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges 302
Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta
18 Action research as a methodology for the construction of
territorial leadership 324
James Karlsen and Miren Larrea
19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership 343
Helen Dinmore and Andrew Beer

Index