The study of regional growth paths is a key theme in economic geography and of elemental
interest for regional development. This paper addresses the interplay between path …

This paper offers an economic‐geographical interpretation of the role of transnational
corporations (TNCs) in urban and regional development that is grounded in Dunning and …

Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in regional development, the
methodological approaches available to study it have not followed theoretical development …

Abstract P ike A., R odríguez-P ose A. and T omaney J.(2007) What kind of local and
regional development and for whom?, Regional Studies 41, 1253–1269. This paper asks …

Resilience is attracting increasing interest in the thinking and policy discourses around
regional development. However, regional development policy remains dominated by a …

Geographical scale is a central concept enabling us to make sense of the world we inhabit.
Amongst other things, it allows us to declare one event or process a national one and …

Making sense of leadership in urban and regional development. Regional Studies. This
editorial paves the way for the articles addressing several contemporary sub-national …

Strategic agency and institutional change: investigating the role of universities in regional
innovation systems (RISs). Regional Studies. Past analyses rooted in the thick description of …

Governance, agency and place leadership: lessons from a cross-national analysis. Regional
Studies. This paper argues that few accounts of place leadership have found an appropriate …

The regional development studies community increasingly focuses on the significance of
agency when investigating why some regions or cities develop better or worse than others …