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Thomas Hickmann

Associate Professor | Associate Senior Lecturer

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Bridging the Resource Gap : Inter-Organizational Collaboration between the World Bank and Transnational City Networks

Author

  • Kai Harbrich
  • Thomas Hickmann

Summary, in English

Scholars of world politics have recently devoted growing attention to the inner workings of international organizations. While this research strand has considerably enhanced our knowledge on the impact of international bureaucracies on global policy-making, their interplay with transnational actors has not been analyzed in much detail. Against this backdrop, the present article addresses the question of why and under what circumstances international bureaucracies and transnational actors work together. Building upon a resource-exchange approach, the article specifically explores the determinants of varying levels of inter-organizational collaboration between the World Bank and transnational city networks in the policy domain of climate change. We contend that the resource-exchange perspective bears great potential to understand
inter-organizational dynamics as it takes the motivations on both sides of the relationship into account. In contrast to conceptualizations of international organizations as regulators, principals, or orchestrators, this approach leaves conceptual room for analyzing their bureaucracies as partners of transnational actors.

Publishing year

2018

Language

English

Pages

61-80

Publication/Series

Journal of International Organizations Studies

Volume

9

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published