Shaping influence in governance networks: The role of motivations and information exchange

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Reyes-Gonzalez, Jose Antonio; Agneessens, Filip; Esteve, Marc
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; University of Trento; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12942
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 601-625
• 关键词: INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK; POWER; PARTICIPATION; determinants; partnerships; SCHOLARSHIP; CHALLENGES; KNOWLEDGE

摘要

In governance networks, some actors might have more influence than others in the group's collective decision-making. This paper investigates whether an actor's prosocial and/or self-interested motivations to participate in a governance network help predict its level of influence in the group. We argue that information exchange is an important mediator in this relationship because an actor's tendency to actively diffuse information will depend on its motivations; while other participants being exposed to information from an actor are likely to increase the actor's influence on them. Using a unique relational dataset from 10 anti-corruption multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) in Latin America, Africa and Eurasia, we find that self-interested actors, rather than prosocially motivated ones, take the lead in information-exchange activities. The data also shows how this central role in turn increases perceived influence of self-interested actors among other participants, conditioning potentially the direction of agreed-upon collective objectives.