“…Leadership has long been the subject of research in public organizations, as, from the first half of the twentieth century, research has been conducted into the leeway for decision-making of public leaders (Brest, 2011;Van Wart, 2003). However, few authors from the field of management sciences have questioned territorial leadership, a concept we choose to anchor in the scientific current of strategic territorial management (Arnaud and Soldo, 2015a). The latter covers 'the efforts made by the public authorities to adapt the methods used to elaborate and implement their public policies, on the one hand, and the functioning of the institutions, on the other hand, to changes in their territorial context (globalization of economic processes, atomization of society, the crisis of public finances, etc.)'…”