Managers’ career paths and interlocal collaboration: an agent network collaboration model
研究城市管理者职业路径形成的领导调任网络如何促进中国珠三角14个城市间的跨地方环境协作协议形成。
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.