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Universities as strategic navigators: place leadership in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

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  • Tatiana Fumasoli
  • Fumi Kitagawa

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This article investigates university place leadership within the context of a politically asymmetrical cross-border regional innovation system – China’s state-steered, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. We conceptualise place leadership as a process of strategic navigation, where universities manage two sets of tensions: (1) the strategic posture between state compliance and organisational opportunity and (2) the locus of their legitimacy between local political endorsement and global academic prestige. Based on a comparative analysis of seven universities, we develop a series of navigational profiles, revealing how universities mobilise resources and shape visions, offering insights for the study of place leadership and cross-border innovation.

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  • Tatiana Fumasoli & Fumi Kitagawa, 2025. "Universities as strategic navigators: place leadership in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 59(1), pages 2567917-256, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:59:y:2025:i:1:p:2567917
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2025.2567917
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