Making sense of leadership in urban and regional development

Sotarauta, Markku; Beer, Andrew; Gibney, John

doi:10.1080/00343404.2016.1267340

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“…There has been something of a spatial turn in leadership research, with a focus particularly upon sub-national levels, and this research has added to our understanding of the relationship between leadership, knowledge and spatial economic development Gibney, 2012;Grint and Holt, 2011;Hemphill et al, 2006;Sotarauta et al, 2012). 'Spatial' here is a more general concept than 'territorial': it is an open relational domain in which territories may (or may not) be seen as politically defined, bounded spaces.…”

Section: Learning and Leadership Within Space And Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…At key moments, strategic intentions and unforeseen opportunities can coincide serendipitously, and leadership must be positioned to enable such opportunities to be recognized and exploited (Sotarauta et al, 2012). As knowledge developments play out across a number of geographical scales, leadership has to move between these scales (Fairtlough, 2005).…”

Section: Learning and Leadership Within Space And Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sharing of knowledge between partners has emerged over time, assisted by a leadership approach that eschews an over-reliance on top-down directing practices of vertical organizational hierarchies and that seeks instead to mobilize and combine individuals and assets across space. Leaders translated external stimuli into internal changes by acting as 'animateurs' (Sotarauta et al, 2012).…”

Section: Leadership In Bsc and Bementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, there is the tendency to ignore the complexities of the 'human touch' in social and economic progress (Collinge and Gibney, 2010: 380). This means we need ways of understanding how actors 'see' (interpret) knowledge and how they 'do' (enact) this through leadership (Nicholds et al, forthcoming;Sotarauta et al, 2012;Uhl Bein et al, 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, it is suggested that such unconfined leadership can play an important role by facilitating networking and providing a 'leadership of leadership' -the secondorder leadership, which fosters an ambience that allows specialist local leaderships to emerge and to operate within particular domains. However, this mode of leadership remains as yet underspecified at a theoretical level, and its impact upon knowledge networking and sharing at sub-national scales remains as yet under-examined at an empirical level (Sotarauta et al, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Relational knowledge leadership and local economic development

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Collinge

Gibney

2017

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This paper concerns the role of spatial leadership in the development of the knowledge-based economy. It is argued within academic and practitioner circles that leadership of knowledge networks requires a particular non-hierarchical style that is required to establish an ambience conducive to networking and knowledge sharing across boundaries. In this paper, we explore this hypothesis at both theoretical and empirical levels. Theoretically, we propose a conceptualization of relational knowledge leadership, which is 'nomadic' in its capacity to travel across multiple scales and cross sectoral, thematic and geographical boundaries. We have operationalized this type of relational knowledge leadership along four key features, derived from literatures on regional learning, organizational leadership and place leadership. Two empirical case studies are then presented, one from Birmingham in the UK and one from Eindhoven in the Netherlands, exploring how these features are expressed on the sub-national level. Also conclusions are drawn regarding the status of relational knowledge leadership. It is argued that the concept of relational knowledge leadership as viewed through our analytical lens does accord with the experience of leadership in the two cases presented. The cases also show that this style of leadership is confronted with three types of tensions that play through knowledge networking. Furthermore, it is argued that the cases exhibit this style of leadership to different degrees, reflecting their different cultural and political contexts.

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Urban renewal as policy innovation in China: From growth stimulation to sustainable development

Peng

Aniche

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Public Admin & Development

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A major policy innovation in China, urban renewal creates an opportunity to promote sustainable inner-city development and to foster economic growth in an environmentally and culturally sound way, which demands a close investigation of its context, internal and external dynamics, and policy features. Property-led redevelopment dominated China's urban renewal since the early 1990s, as a result of the market reform and political decentralization. Recently, it has become important to meet the interests of local communities and the diverse stakeholders in the effort to preserve the urban history and cultural fabric of cities. Contextual factors in urban renewal policy and its innovation are investigated by analyzing a pioneering case in Guangzhou from a longitudinal study approach. The impact of the structural-instrumental, cultural-institutional, and environmental perspective on policy innovation with the change of contextual factors that transformed the development ideology and the managerial practice are identified to provide a new angle of studying policy innovation in the urban field.

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