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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Agents as Brokers: Leadership in Multilateral Organizations
Contributor:
Saz‐Carranza, Angel
Published:
Wiley, 2015
Published in:
Global Policy, 6 (2015) 3, Seite 277-289
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/1758-5899.12248
ISSN:
1758-5899;
1758-5880
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
AbstractIn exploring the leadership practices of chief executives of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), this article finds thatIGOleaders recognize themselves as agents and as brokers. This article produces findings from a multiple‐case study of the executive leadership ofNATOfrom 1995 to 1999 and of theEUCommon Foreign and Security Policy from 1999 to 2009. The relationship between member states and theIGOleader can be conceived as a principal–agent relationship where the agent plays a central role in framing a common vision and strategies, facilitating member states’ involvement in the strategizing process, and mobilizing external and internal support. I depart from a restrictive principal–agent conceptualization of the relationship because I do not envision it as conflictive, but rather as collaborative.