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 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 168Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň11 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

‘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.’