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This article is situated within the context of the rapidpace ofpublic-sector reform since the 1970s with a focus upon the development of collaborative synergies. Such change, initially stimulated by American management gurus, set forth an ideology to create 'lean and athletic' organisations for the modem world - Kanter (1989) referred to these transformations as 'When Giants Learn to Dance'. Such management principles have since become embedded in the way that we think aboutpublic-sector management, and are embodied in New Labours modernisation and new localism approaches to local government restructuring and the subsequent search for collaborative advantage. Within this context, and using a case study based upon Newcastle City Council between 1997-2005, this article analyses the adoption of a package of measures and associated policy responses, referred to collectively as 'Waking up the Sleeping Giant' which emerged as a reaction to the historical governance trends of clientelism, paternalism and fragmentation, which had plagued the development of intra and inter organisational partnerships. This emphasis sought to turn the council into an 'excellent' performing local authority, and to create an organisation that learns, continually adapts and develops more permeable internal and external boundaries. It is argued that the adoption of radical overarching management strategies can have an unsettling effect on organisational arenas with implications for the success of current modernisation policy and the successful development of collaboration and partnership working.

Public enterprise and local entrepreneurship in Europe and beyond -- Local government partnerships, economic development and enterprise -- Place and place-making -- Public enterprise, innovation and collaboration -- The enterprising local state? -- Towards a model of the new public enterprise -- Conclusions and future directions.

Leading Local Government: The Role of Directly Elected Mayors provides a critical assessment of the role occupied by directly elected mayors in the leadership of English local government. Built on original research and historical analysis, the book examines the impact of elected mayors upon public engagement, devolution and local leadership.

Purpose
Be it about blending intangibles to deliver to market needs or directed at fulfilling aspirations pushing at technological frontiers, inter-firm collaborations across industry boundaries are much in vogue. This paper aims to classify some collaborations as "odd couple collaborations". These are fuelled more by aspirations of the partner firms, and not as much by market pull. The study provides key distinguishing characteristics for these and an understanding of what makes them tick.


Design/methodology/approach
The paper draws on secondary sources in the public domain to understand the motives and performance of several inter-firm collaborations. Odd couple collaborations are examined and some essential performance enablers are highlighted.


Findings
A typology that distinguishes odd couple collaborations from other inter-firm collaborations is drawn out. Analysing the performance of such collaborations, and a need for partners to work on the visibility and appeal of such collaborations, is discussed. Stringent market evaluation of the offering and careful creative blending of intangibles are also highlighted as key enablers.


Originality/value
The paper contributes to a vast body of research on inter-sector or distant collaborations by isolating and examining a niche that is fast becoming pronounced. The analysis of odd couple collaborations provides cues for effective strategies for superior value from such collaborations. As organisations constantly seek to extend their innovative potential, these insights may prove useful for both practice and research.

Wind energy has not only been promoted as sustainable by officialdom across Europe, it has received broad public approval. In the UK, for example, a high of 76 percent support for wind energy among the public was recorded in a YouGov survey in April 2018 (Harper et al. 2019). Nonetheless, local resistance to onshore wind energy development is commonplace and can be fierce, with objections typically pivoting around landscape impacts, which, it is argued, negatively affect tourism (Cashmore et al. 2019; Ólafsdóttir and Sæþórsdóttir 2019; Silva and Delicado 2017; Gaspar de Sousa and Kastenholz 2015; Rudolph 2014; Aitcheson 2012; Frantal and Kunc 2011; Riddington et al. 2010). This paper addresses this issue through its analysis of findings from research undertaken in 2014 on behalf of Northumberland County Council (NCC) in the UK that aimed to objectively establish the impacts of onshore-windfarms on tourism in Northumberland's rural hinterland. Drawing on Mordue et al. (2020), we revisit that research and take a more nuanced analysis of some of its main findings, and assess its effectiveness on NCC land-use policy since the research was completed. In doing so, we raise important issues of democracy in relation to: landscape and environment, the efficacy of objective knowledge in local land-use decision-making, and the cultural and spatial relations of clean energy production. Though the paper is built around a UK case study, it speaks to other places and official bodies―in Europe and beyond―facing similar issues.

PurposeSeeks to analyse the complexity of current practices surrounding the management and governance of urban regeneration activities in the UK. In particular, aims to focus on the potential of initiatives decentralised to the sub‐local level that have been designed both to effectively manage public service provision and to improve citizen participation in local government management decision making.Design/methodology/approachExplores the early experiences of local authorities' attempts to introduce "area committees" in line with the complex "modernisation" agendas advanced by the "New Labour" government under an overarching project of "new localism".FindingsHighlights that new attempts at devolving power and responsibility to these sub‐local structures should be more flexible to local conditions rather than directed by national policy.Originality/valueArgues for a "middle way" to be adopted in managing local government and governance changes in order to develop a more "pragmatic localism".