ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 3|23 pages

Sustaining collaborative leadership in city regions

An examination of local enterprise partnerships in England

chapter 4|20 pages

Leadership and scale

chapter 8|19 pages

Socially embedded leadership

chapter 9|26 pages

Leadership and institutional change

Economic restructuring, sense of place and social capital in Emmaste, Estonia

chapter 10|22 pages

Strategic leadership relay

How to keep regional innovation journeys in motion?