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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462451303321

Titolo

Leadership and change in sustainable regional development / / edited by Markku Sotarauta, Lummina Horlings and Joyce Liddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-60598-8

9786613918437

1-136-26064-1

0-203-10705-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Regions and Cities

Altri autori (Persone)

HorlingsIna

LiddleJoyce <1952->

SotarautaMarkku

Disciplina

338.9/27

Soggetti

Sustainable development

Regional planning

Community leadership

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1 Leadership and sustainable regional development; 2 Leadership of place and the dynamics of knowledge; 3 Sustaining collaborative leadership in city regions: an examination of local enterprise partnerships in England; 4 Leadership and scale; 5 Leadership and the voluntary and community sector; 6 Adaptation, adjustment and leadership in Australia' srural margins; 7 The interplay between social capital, leadership and policy arrangements in European rural regions; 8 Socially embedded leadership

9 Leadership and institutional change: economic restructuring, sense of place and social capital in Emmaste, Estonia10 Strategic leadership relay: how to keep regional innovation journeys in motion?; 11 Emergence of shared leadership in the Basque Country; 12 Complexity leadership for sustainable regional innovations; 13 Value-oriented leadership in the Netherlands; 14 Knowledge leadership for resilient



regions: concluding remarks; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 economical