Making sense of variety in place leadership: the case of England’s smart cities

Alyson Nicholds, J. Gibney, C. Mabey, D. Hart

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Making sense of variety in place leadership: the case of England’s smart cities. Regional Studies. There is rising interest in cities becoming ‘smart’ knowledge-oriented economies by prioritizing more digitally enabled modes of production and service delivery. Whilst the prevalence of these new organizational forms is well understood, the way that leadership agency is exercised (i.e., the actors involved and their modalities of action) is not. Drawing on new empirical data and sense-making methodology, the paper reveals discursive patterns in how public agencies, private firms and communities ‘see’ and ‘do’ leadership within these place-based contexts, and concludes that success in exploiting the social and spatial dynamics of ‘smart’ development lies in understanding actors’ assumptions about commercial and social gain. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Regional Studies on 17 Nov 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/00343404.2016.1232482.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)249-259
JournalRegional Studies
Volume51
Early online date17 Nov 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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Keywords

  • smart city
  • leadership
  • place
  • knowledge
  • urban and regional development
  • sense-making

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Making sense of variety in place leadership: the case of England’s smart cities. / Nicholds, Alyson; Gibney, J.; Mabey, C.; Hart, D.

In: Regional Studies, Vol. 51, 2017, p. 249-259.

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Nicholds, A, Gibney, J, Mabey, C & Hart, D 2017, 'Making sense of variety in place leadership: the case of England’s smart cities' Regional Studies, vol. 51, pp. 249-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1232482
Nicholds A, Gibney J, Mabey C, Hart D. Making sense of variety in place leadership: the case of England’s smart cities. Regional Studies. 2017;51:249-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1232482
Nicholds, Alyson ; Gibney, J. ; Mabey, C. ; Hart, D. / Making sense of variety in place leadership: the case of England’s smart cities. In: Regional Studies. 2017 ; Vol. 51. pp. 249-259.
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