Sotarauta, M. (2026) Place leadership. In Bratton, J. (ed.) Organizational Leadership. Sage Publications ltd.

Place Leadership as a Mobilisation of Assets: Town of Salo, Nokia and Microsoft as a case in point. In Charles, D., Nieth, L., Coenen, L., & Cinar, R. (eds.) Universities, Knowledge and Places. 251-269. Abingdon, Oxon; Routledge. (with Sopanen, S., Kolehmainen, J. & Kurikka, H. - 2026)

 Understanding leadership in city and regional development: Towards multiple perspectives of sub-national (place) leadership, Regional Studies, 59 (1). pp. 1-8. (With Gibney, J., Liddle, J., Shutt, J. & and Sotarauta, M. - 2025)

Place leadership in the geography of opportunities: survival of small industrial localities when industrial giants fall. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2479108 (with Kurikka, H., Kolehmainen, J. & Moisio, S. 2025)

Understanding leadership in city and regional development: Towards multiple perspectives of sub-national (place) leadership, Regional Studies, 59 (1). pp. 1-8. (with Gibney, J., Liddle, J., Shutt, J. & and Sotarauta, M. - 2025)

Special issue: Leadership in city and regional development: new perspectives from within and beyond borders. Regional Studies, 59(1).(with Gibney, J., Liddle, J., Shutt, J. & and Sotarauta, M. - 2025)

Place leadership in the geography of opportunities: survival of small industrial localities when industrial giants fall. Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2479108

Leading Change in Communities Experiencing Economic Transition: Place Leadership, Expectations, and Industry Closure. Journal of Change Management (with A. Beer and D. Bailey - 2023)

Handbook on City and Regional Leadership (with A. Beer - 2021)

Place leadership and the challenge of transformation: policy platforms and innovation ecosystems in promotion of green growth. European Planning Studies (with Suvinen, N. - 2019)

Place leadership and regional economic development: a framework for cross-regional analysis. Regional Studies (with A. Beer, S. Ayres, T. Clower, F. Faller, A. Sancino - 2019)

Smart specialization and place leadership: dreaming about shared visions, falling into policy traps? Regional Studies, Regional Science (2018)

Governance, agency and place leadership: lessons from a cross national analysis. Regional Studies (with A. Beer - 2017)

Making sense of leadership in urban and regional development (with A. Beer and J. Gibney - 2017)

Leadership and the city: power, strategy and networks in the making of knowledge cities (2016)

Leadership and change in sustainable regional development (with L. Horlings and J. Liddle - 2012)