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Managers’ career paths and interlocal collaboration: an agent network collaboration model

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  • Wenna Chen
  • Hongtao Yi

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This study examines the role of change agents, city leaders, and their networks in facilitating interlocal collaboration in environmental governance. We propose an Agent Network Collaboration (ANC) model that brings individual managers, as change agents, back into the study of the interlocal agreement (ILA). We argue that the leadership transfer networks, the collection of city managers’ career paths that connect cities, serve as an important channel for interlocal collaboration. With a dyadic panel data set of 14 cities in the Pearl River Delta region in China, we find substantive impacts of managers’ career paths on the formation of ILAs.

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  • Wenna Chen & Hongtao Yi, 2024. "Managers’ career paths and interlocal collaboration: an agent network collaboration model," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(5), pages 1424-1448, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:26:y:2024:i:5:p:1424-1448
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2023.2189902
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