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Agency is considered an essential but understudied factor in processes of regional structural change. However, investigating agency systematically and at the micro-level, comes with a great deal of challenges. What are ...

The notion of place leadership with its many names has attracted increasing interest in scholarly communities. This chapter paints a picture of the spread and depth of contemporary place leadership studies. It presents the ...

Over the past decade, Internet-enabled peer-to-peer platforms have had a significant impact on urban life and the economies of many cities. This process is sometimes referred to as ‘Airbnbzation’, with reference to the ...

Participatory budgeting (PB) has proven popular in the Baltic Sea Region, but municipalities are at different stages of utilising it. Many are contemplating taking it up or piloting for the first time while some are more ...

This chapter presents a theoretical framework for understanding place leadership and combinatorial power. Place leadership is defined as the mobilization and coordination of diverse groups of actors to achieve a collective ...

When it comes to the second decade of the 21st century, the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and China in higher education has been evolving from 1.0 era, when the focus was on policy dialogues and practical ...

Strategic management has become an integral tool to organize actions in government, but most of the previous research effort has adopted a focus on individual organizations in studying private enterprises. Within the public ...

This chapter explores how to account for animal rights. We begin by reviewing seminal contributions to the debate on the moral value of non-human animals and the political implications thereof. These issues have mainly ...

This article discusses the localization of the inclusion agenda and asks on what kind of framework should urban communities in the developed world build their inclusion policies? This chapter is based on a realist, ...