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The need to give strategic direction to complex regional systems has never been greater, but reinstating a classic strategic plan model which failed to secure consistently positive impacts, or even sustain its own practice is a mistaken route. With a mix of conceptual analysis, critical review of past experience, and an examination of population dynamics across England’s Wider South East and its fringes this paper argues for a decentred form of strategic governance based on the development of a capacity for negotiated collaboration and realistic engagement with powerful market and institutional processes on a sustained basis.
Author(s): Gordon I, Champion T
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Regional Studies
Year: 2021
Volume: 55
Issue: 1
Pages: 115-126
Online publication date: 26/06/2020
Acceptance date: 16/04/2020
Date deposited: 24/04/2020
ISSN (print): 0034-3404
ISSN (electronic): 1360-0591
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1759795
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2020.1759795
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