Administrative Styles of International Organizations: Can We Find Them, Do They Matter?

Knill, Christoph; Enkler, Jan; Schmidt, Sylvia; Eckhard, Steffen; Grohs, Stephan

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“…Mapping political salience against entrepreneurial methods based on a simple ‘high’ or ‘low’ score produces a two‐by‐two typology of entrepreneurial strategies. This typology develops Knill et al.’s () map of four ideal typical ‘administrative styles’ of IOs by comparing the ‘external institutional challenges’ an IO faces (‘political salience’ in our terms) with an IO's ‘bureaucratic policy ambitiousness’ (‘entrepreneurial methods’). Table sets out the strategies, and this section then summarises the four types: technical functional; politicised; insulating; and network‐seeking.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…In this definition, authority is ‘a quality of communication’ (Friedrich : 36) rather than a form of power given by formal‐legal fiat (Knill et al. ). Studies of authority at the transnational level have therefore focused on everyday processes of ‘socialisation’ (Broome & Seabrooke ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Knill et al. () call this the ‘servant’ type of IO, which they characterise using the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme. The Programme has ‘clear‐cut council structure and responsibilities, strong focus on technicality’.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Conceptually, it draws from sophisticated accounts of international organisation (IO) authority, arguing that a map of entrepreneurial strategies must account for how agencies share information and ideas (how ‘entrepreneurial’ they are), in a context of a more or less politically salient environment (Broome & Seabrooke ; Stone & Ladi ). Knill et al.’s () typology of IO strategies for gaining authority is adapted as a framework, covering four types: technical‐functional, insulating, network‐seeking and politicised. To operationalise this framework, measurement across two dimensions – ‘political salience’ (within media and parliamentary circles) and ‘entrepreneurial methods’ (including agencies’ media engagement, face‐to‐face networking, and knowledge dissemination and learning practices) – is used.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, it stipulates that entrepreneurship is an important and distinctive topic for analysis because it is essential for the authority of EU agencies. Second, the article argues for a typology of entrepreneurial strategies including the political salience and entrepreneurial methods dimensions, and building on Knill et al.’s () recent contribution. Third, the research strategy is set out, the methods and data used are specified, a ‘conceptual typology’ is developed and an ‘ordinal’ dataset measuring entrepreneurial methods is constructed.…”

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Mapping EU agencies as political entrepreneurs

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Abstract. The European Union relies on decentralised agencies to implement important transnational regulations, such as certifying the safety of medicines. However, the authority of these agencies does not have 'hard' legal status and crucially depends on disseminating ideas and information effectively: what can be termed 'political entrepreneurship' . This article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the political entrepreneurship of EU agencies by constructing a conceptual typology of entrepreneurial strategies. Drawing conceptually on transnational public administration, a new database is constructed of the 'entrepreneurship' of 33 EU agencies in 2014 based on their media communication activities, face-to-face networking in workshops and collaborations, and knowledge dissemination and 'learning' exercises. This is mapped against the political salience of agencies in the European Parliament and media. The mapping exercise shows four types of entrepreneurial strategies covering the population of EU agencies: technical functional, insulating, network-seeking and politicised. The typology is validated through semi-structured interviews in 11 EU agencies, showing the core characteristics of each type of strategy. The article concludes by arguing that this typology provides an important addition to existing categories of EU agencies based on autonomy and accountability, and advocates a future research strategy examining the interaction between agencies' entrepreneurial strategies and the expectations and reactions of stakeholder audiences.

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Section: Four Ideal Typical Entrepreneurship Strategies For Eu Agenciesmentioning

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Exploring the link between administrative styles and policy output: The case of the Italian Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid‐19 Emergency

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2023

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Administrative style is a central concept in public policy and administration research. Despite the developments in the field, less is known about the effect different administrative styles have on policy output. To contribute to filling this gap, the article offers an original framework to explore the link between administrative styles and policy output based on the consolidated distinction between functional and positional orientations as constitutive elements of administrative styles. This framework is applied to an under-investigated case of public organization in the Italian context, that is, the administrative apparatus headed by the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid-19 Emergency, to test the general hypothesis that what makes the difference in determining output performance is an administration's positional orientation, not only its functional one. Doing so, the article contributes to "second generation" administrative style research and provides a theoretical and analytical framework to be tested in future cross-national and cross-sectoral comparisons.

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Theoretical Background: Organizational Theories and the Research on International Organizations

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The UNHCR and Disaster Displacement in the 21st Century

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Administrative Styles of International Organizations: Can We Find Them, Do They Matter?

Cited by 22 publications

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Mapping EU agencies as political entrepreneurs

Mapping EU agencies as political entrepreneurs

Exploring the link between administrative styles and policy output: The case of the Italian Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid‐19 Emergency

Theoretical Background: Organizational Theories and the Research on International Organizations

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