Abstract
Place leadership is at a critical juncture. Since the 1990s, it has been taken for granted that for places to prosper, effective partnerships combining the interests of multiple stakeholders are essential. The leadership of place-based partnerships is crucial to their success and has accordingly received increased attention in academic and policy circles, but the notion of place leadership remains an ideological phenomenon founded on numerous case studies with few conclusions that can be generalised across wider spatial scales or beyond advanced economies. This article examines place leadership through examining England’s local enterprise partnerships, in particular looking at the role of the private sector vis-a-vis the public sector. The complexity of these partnerships is explored, and the article argues for the role of collaborative leadership to address that complexity. It contributes a set of guiding principles to guide new ways for place-based working that can better embrace the private sector and engender a more collaborative leadership practice.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 149-163 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Local Economy |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 21 Jul 2021 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 21 Jul 2021 |
Bibliographical note
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).Keywords
- collaborative leadership
- economic development
- local enterprise partnerships
- place leadership
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
