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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 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.
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.
The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to
find new pathways for city development. As cities seek to
regenerate via the knowledge-based economy, now more than ever
dynamic leadership is required order to navigate new and complex
challenges while building community. This book is about generative
leadership in knowledge city development. Leadership and the City
is rooted in a conviction that the leadership in a city is crucial
in order for it to adjust strategically to major transformations
and thus secure a good future for its inhabitants. The book opens a
fresh view of leadership by focusing on generative leaders and
their modes of leading, instead of spatial categorisations,
governance structures and/or policy contents and processes. It
investigates generative leadership by elaborating the modes of
leadership, power and strategies in influence networks. The key
points are highlighted with several empirical cases. These include
Akron and Rochester (USA), Munich (Germany), Leeds (UK), Barcelona
(Spain) as well as Helsinki, Tampere and Seinajoki (Finland). This
book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners concerned
with Leadership, Urban Studies and Strategic Management.
The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to
find new pathways for city development. As cities seek to
regenerate via the knowledge-based economy, now more than ever
dynamic leadership is required order to navigate new and complex
challenges while building community. This book is about generative
leadership in knowledge city development. Leadership and the City
is rooted in a conviction that the leadership in a city is crucial
in order for it to adjust strategically to major transformations
and thus secure a good future for its inhabitants. The book opens a
fresh view of leadership by focusing on generative leaders and
their modes of leading, instead of spatial categorisations,
governance structures and/or policy contents and processes. It
investigates generative leadership by elaborating the modes of
leadership, power and strategies in influence networks. The key
points are highlighted with several empirical cases. These include
Akron and Rochester (USA), Munich (Germany), Leeds (UK), Barcelona
(Spain) as well as Helsinki, Tampere and Seinajoki (Finland). This
book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners concerned
with Leadership, Urban Studies and Strategic Management.
This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role
in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to
something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable
regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a
solo but a multi-agent and -level activity and that it needs to be
discussed and studied as such. Third, as the book argues,
leadership is shaped differently in various institutional and
cultural contexts and on different scales. This book explores the
ways leadership plays our in regional development context
contributing to economically, socially and ecologically balanced
sustainable future.
This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role
in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to
something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable
regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a
solo but a multi-agent and -level activity and that it needs to be
discussed and studied as such. Third, as the book argues,
leadership is shaped differently in various institutional and
cultural contexts and on different scales. This book explores the
ways leadership plays our in regional development context
contributing to economically, socially and ecologically balanced
sustainable future.
Across the globe policy makers implement, and academics teach and
undertake research upon, place-based policy. But what is
place-based policy, what does it aspire to achieve, what are the
benefits of place-based approaches relative to other forms of
policy, and what are the key determinants of success for this type
of government intervention? This Policy Expo examines these
questions, reviewing the literature and the experience of places
and their governments around the world. We find place-based
policies are essential in contemporary economies, providing
solutions to otherwise intractable challenges such as the long-term
decline of cities and regions. For those working in public sector
agencies the success or failure of place-based policies is largely
attributable to governance arrangements, but for researchers the
community that is the subject of this policy effort, and its
leadership, determines outcomes. This Policy Expo explores the
differing perspectives on place-based policy and maps out the
essential components of effective and impactful actions by
government at the scale of individual places.
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