Monday, 9 December 2019

Facilitating spaces for place-based leadership in centralized governance systems: the case of Newcastle City Futures

an article by Paul Vallance (University of Sheffield, UK) and Mark Tewdwr-Jones and Louise Kempton (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) published in Regional Studies Volume 53 Issue 12 (2019)

Abstract

This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with constrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform situated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity.

The research contributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership by analysing how actors can mobilise interpretive and network forms of power outside formal governance structures to encourage long-term thinking and broker innovative cross-organisational projects.

Equally, however, it highlights their continuing dependence on legitimating forms of local institutional and resource authority.

JEL Classification: H70, I23, O20, R50

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