Abstract
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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 249-259 |
Journal | Regional Studies |
Volume | 51 |
Early online date | 17 Nov 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Due to publisher policy, the full text is not available on the repository until the 17th of May 2018.This article is currently in press. Full citation details will be uploaded when available.
Keywords
- smart city
- leadership
- place
- knowledge
- urban and regional development
- sense-making