This document provides an overview of a doctoral research seminar presentation. The presentation includes: 1) An introduction to the doctoral research exploring how local and multi-area agreements in the UK manifest properties of markets, hierarchies and networks and construct "scope at scale" in governing city regions. 2) Details on the research methods including elite interviews, participant observation, social network analysis and case studies of specific local areas in Greater Manchester. 3) An outline of the thesis structure exploring concepts like second generation governance mechanisms, rescaling the state, scope at scale, and governability. 4) A discussion of the conceptual framework analyzing how governance networks can be treated as complex networks and hybrid formations can lead