Pooling administrative resources through EU regulatory networks
研究了欧盟药品监管网络中的资源整合机制，发现网络参与者在欧盟机构协调下通过知识共享和分工来整合资源，且组织结构因素促进了网络集权化。
Do European Union (EU) administrative networks help to preserve executive power at the member state level, or centralize executive power at the EU level? This article examines how resource pooling takes place in the European Medicines Regulatory Network (EMRN), and the relevance of organizational structure in explaining this. By doing so, the article adds both empirically and theoretically to the literature on EU networks. The article presents new insights on intra-network decision behaviour, showing how network participants, under the co-ordination of an EU agency, pool resources by sharing knowledge, information, practices and experiences, and by routinized division of labour. Furthermore, applying an organizational perspective the article identifies some organizational structural factors that facilitate resource pooling and contribute to centralization of the EMRN. The findings thus have implications for the debate on the effects of establishing EU regulatory networks for intra-network decision behaviour.