Connecting place, policy and leadership

All Australian Regions Are Not Born Equal: Understanding the Regional Innovation Management Sandpit

“…Mintzberg and Waters (1985), in tackling the firm as an organization, identified realized strategy as a combination of emergent patterns and more deliberate activities. This lexicon of emergent patterns with purposive support has entered the regional domain (Collinge & Gibney, 2010). Such regional innovation systems, like an organizing firm, will also arguably rely on innovation processes working both bottom-up and top-down (Kriz et al, 2013).…”

“…Corporations do have clearer boundaries and their objective is more targeted: to turn a profit. Who is actually leading the region (Sotarauta, 2005) and how policies are shaped (Collinge & Gibney, 2010) is also not straightforward. Nevertheless, it is foolish to simply dismiss parallels between organizing regions and firms.…”

Leadership and systems of governance: the constraints on the scope for leadership of place-based development in sub-national territories

“…A further tenet of leadership is that it involves taking responsibility for making choices and ultimately decisions, which are subsequently enacted. Such propositions are particularly relevant to the consideration of leadership in city and regional development (COLLINGE and GIBNEY, 2010;COLLINGE et al, 2011;GIBNEY, 2014;LIDDLE, 2012;see BEER and CLOWER, 2014 for a comprehensive review).…”

“…There is a growing interest in the role of leadership in city and regional developmentburgeoning from business and political science theories of different styles of leadership in organizations (NORTHOUSE, 2013;STIMSON et al, 2009;COLLINGE and GIBNEY, 2010;COLLINGE et al, 2011;SOTARAUTA et al, 2012;BARBER, 2013;BEER and CLOWER, 2014;THORKILDSEN, KAULIO and EKMAN, 2015). BEER and CLOWER (2014) stress the decisive role of leadership in realizing regional development ambitions.…”

Sustainability of the Self–Harnessing Natural Cycles for Leadership Development

“…There are many ways to measure leadership effectiveness (Moawad & Jones, 2015) but from a sustainability perspective effective leadership is attained through the development of leadership qualities that meet the economic, environmental, and social needs of the present while preparing to meet the challenges of the future (Akins, Bright, Brunson, & Wortham, 2013). At the macro level studies have indicated that leadership is a key factor in sustainable development at the regional scale (Collinge & Gibney, 2010;Horlings & Padt, 2013).…”