Place leadership in the geography of opportunities: survival of small industrial localities when industrial giants fall

Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, Jari Kolehmainen, Sami Sopanen and Sami Moisio

Regional Studies, 2025, vol. 59, issue 1, 2479108

Abstract: This article focuses on place leadership in non-core localities struggling to renew their opportunity spaces when local industries giants fall. The research questions are as follows: What does it take in non-core localities to connect to the geography of opportunities? What role does place leadership play in this process? What is achieved by place leadership? The study analyses place leadership in two Finnish industrial subregions: Salo and Varkaus, and concludes that place leadership is a cause and a consequence of the local capacity to act in times of adversity, and therefore a central element of the local capacity to renew opportunity spaces.

Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/00343404.2025.2479108 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:regstd:v:59:y:2025:i:1:p:2479108

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/CRES20

DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2025.2479108

Access Statistics for this article

Regional Studies is currently edited by Ivan Turok

More articles in Regional Studies from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().