Angel Saz-Carranza
Biographic Data
| ID | 4380472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angel Saz-Carranza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angel |
| FAMILY NAME | Saz-Carranza |
| SIGNATURE | SAZ-CARRANZA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Ramon Llull |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3797-9921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
China's rise, public opinion, and growing interventionism in South America's electricity industry
The firm logic of parallel lobbying
Inclusiveness-Efficiency Configurations of Business Interest Associations with Access to Policymakers
This article examines the relationship between business interest associations’ (BIAs’) governance configurations and their access to administrative officials and political heads of the European Union. We focus on how effective BIAs design their plenaries and boards to address the inclusiveness-efficiency tradeoff. By means of a qualitative comparative analysis, we find that most of the configurations related to administrative officials balance ef…
The future(s) of global governance
Pervasive uncertainty has stretched the fabric of global governance to its limit. The shape and form of future global governance is far from clear – yet we need to explore how it may play out, so that we can not only prepare for it but also overcome possible pernicious trajectories. Scenario thinking can be used to rigorously explore different possible outcomes. In this article, we present an exercise applying scenario thinking to global governan…
Institutional Transformations of Global Governance – Key Challenges for International Organisations
This article examines the evolving institutional challenges of global governance by analyzing four key sectors: trade, security, environment, and finance. Recent transformations have increased their complexity and fragmentation in these sectors, challenging the traditional dominance of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Based on the findings of the H2020 GLOBE project and a survey of 1,004 IGO staff, we discuss four major cross-sectoral chal…
The impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on public perceptions of EU security and defence integration
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through Europe and led to rapid policy changes concomitant with variations in citizen perceptions. This article analyses how EU public opinion on security and defence matters has reacted to the war: what patterns of change and continuity can be detected, what differences are visible between Member States, and how might those be explained? Our analysis draws on big data-based sentiment analysis …
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies
Several recent studies have pointed to the increasing relevance of relatively informal, non-treaty-based global governance bodies (GGBs). Yet, a systematic fine-grained assessment of these bodies and their implications for global governance are still pending. To what extent, do non-treaty-based GGBs constitute a truly novel type of governance body, distinct from traditional treaty-based international organizations (IOs)? How do the distinctive fe…
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations
Interactions between the EU and IGOs ˗ such as joint statements, verbal public disagreements, formal cooperation agreements, and IGO dispute resolution involving the EU ˗ have increased in the past decades. We address the question What determines the EU’s interactions with formal IGOs? by carrying out a big data-based sentiment analysis of all news published online between 1999 and 2017. Using over 30,000 events machine-coded by the Global Data E…
A typology of board design for highly effective monitoring in intergovernmental organizations under the United Nations system
The United Nations (UN) system comprises several intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that were established to contribute to the functioning of the overall transnational system of delivering global public goods. However, many IGOs under the UN system are criticized for their failure to accomplish their mandates. Research argues that IGO boards serve as a governance mechanism that should be designed in order to effectively perform the monitoring…
Taking Dimensions of Purpose-Oriented Networks Seriously
Purpose-oriented networks—often referred to as goal-directed networks—are a widely recognized empirical phenomenon in the public administration and management literatures. However, there is no systematic understanding about which characteristics are constitutive for these entities to be present. We use Goetz’s multilevel concept to develop a conceptual framework for purpose-oriented networks that includes four constitutive dimensions: purpose, jo…
Network tasks and accountability
Intergovernmental networks have become a prominent cooperative mechanism to deal with trans‐boundary and interdependent problems. Yet, we still have limited knowledge of how these collaborative endeavours are governed, which is crucial to properly understanding how they function. This article empirically examines the structural governance configurations of rule‐enforcing networks in the European Union. The article relies on data from 37 networks …
The Governance of Goal-Directed Networks and Network Tasks
In this article, we answer the research question “What factors affect the structural complexity of \nnetwork administrative organizations (NAOs)?” The question warrants further research because \nof the lack of empirical studies on the topic. We design a quantitative study of the structure of all \n37 European regulatory networks. Using Bayesian statistics, we analyze the new data set and test \nhypotheses, derived from the literature, about the …
Agents as Brokers
In exploring the leadership practices of chief executives of intergovernmental organizations ( IGO s), this article finds that IGO leaders recognize themselves as agents and as brokers. This article produces findings from a multiple‐case study of the executive leadership of NATO from 1995 to 1999 and of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy from 1999 to 2009. The relationship between member states and the IGO leader can be conceived as a prin…
Treating Global Governance Seriously
Soonhee Kim, Shena Ashley, and W. Henry Lambright, eds., Public Administration in the Context of Global Governance (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014). 256 pp. $117.03/£75.00 (paper), ISBN: 9781783477791; $105.33/£67.50 (eBook), eISBN: 9781783477807. According to the University of Michigan's “Correlates of War” database (www. correlatesofwar.org), there are 332 international intergovernmental organizations (IOs)—i.e., formal organizat…
The Power Dynamics of Mandated Network Administrative Organizations
In understanding what drives the development of network administrative organizations (NAOs) in mandated networks, power bargaining is central. The authors execute a comparative longitudinal case study of NAOs in two policy‐mandated networks. The article focuses specifically on the role of power in these developments and concludes that differences in NAO development arise from power dependencies, which are attributable in part to sector characteri…
Uniting Diverse Organizations
1. Introduction 2. Advocacy Networks in the U.S. Immigration Field 3. The Core of Goal-Directed Network Management: Uniting in Diversity 4. Building Power and Using It 5. Sustaining the Unity/Diversity Tension 6. Managing Interaction and Decision-Making in Diversity 7. Conclusion. Appendix 1: Research Design and Methodology. Notes. Bibliography. Index
The Quest for Public Value
The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks--Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension
Network management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a "whole." By examining the behavioral dimension of network governance, this article identifies a specific tension that network leaders address to effectively govern networks: although unity and diversity are essential to n…
Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when doing inward work and confrontation and dialogue when d…
Institutional sources of trust in government contracting
This interview-based study explores trust in public-private cooperation by addressing the research questions: what are the main sources of distrust in public-private contracting? And why? We compare two Spanish social services subfields: one with high levels of cross-sector distrust and another one with no distrust between public and private sectors
Nonprofit Organizations
Management of nonprofit organizations is characterized by several distinctive aspects in relation to human resources, communications, strategic planning and the fallacy of using profitability as an in
The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks--Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension
Network management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a "whole." By examining the behavioral dimension of network governance, this article identifies a specific tension that network leaders address to effectively govern networks: although unity and diversity are essential to n…
Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when doing inward work and confrontation and dialogue when d…
The Power Dynamics of Mandated Network Administrative Organizations
In understanding what drives the development of network administrative organizations (NAOs) in mandated networks, power bargaining is central. The authors execute a comparative longitudinal case study of NAOs in two policy‐mandated networks. The article focuses specifically on the role of power in these developments and concludes that differences in NAO development arise from power dependencies, which are attributable in part to sector characteri…
The impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on public perceptions of EU security and defence integration
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through Europe and led to rapid policy changes concomitant with variations in citizen perceptions. This article analyses how EU public opinion on security and defence matters has reacted to the war: what patterns of change and continuity can be detected, what differences are visible between Member States, and how might those be explained? Our analysis draws on big data-based sentiment analysis …
The Governance of Goal-Directed Networks and Network Tasks
In this article, we answer the research question “What factors affect the structural complexity of \nnetwork administrative organizations (NAOs)?” The question warrants further research because \nof the lack of empirical studies on the topic. We design a quantitative study of the structure of all \n37 European regulatory networks. Using Bayesian statistics, we analyze the new data set and test \nhypotheses, derived from the literature, about the …
A typology of board design for highly effective monitoring in intergovernmental organizations under the United Nations system
The United Nations (UN) system comprises several intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that were established to contribute to the functioning of the overall transnational system of delivering global public goods. However, many IGOs under the UN system are criticized for their failure to accomplish their mandates. Research argues that IGO boards serve as a governance mechanism that should be designed in order to effectively perform the monitoring…
Network tasks and accountability
Intergovernmental networks have become a prominent cooperative mechanism to deal with trans‐boundary and interdependent problems. Yet, we still have limited knowledge of how these collaborative endeavours are governed, which is crucial to properly understanding how they function. This article empirically examines the structural governance configurations of rule‐enforcing networks in the European Union. The article relies on data from 37 networks …
China's rise, public opinion, and growing interventionism in South America's electricity industry
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies
Several recent studies have pointed to the increasing relevance of relatively informal, non-treaty-based global governance bodies (GGBs). Yet, a systematic fine-grained assessment of these bodies and their implications for global governance are still pending. To what extent, do non-treaty-based GGBs constitute a truly novel type of governance body, distinct from traditional treaty-based international organizations (IOs)? How do the distinctive fe…
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations
Interactions between the EU and IGOs ˗ such as joint statements, verbal public disagreements, formal cooperation agreements, and IGO dispute resolution involving the EU ˗ have increased in the past decades. We address the question What determines the EU’s interactions with formal IGOs? by carrying out a big data-based sentiment analysis of all news published online between 1999 and 2017. Using over 30,000 events machine-coded by the Global Data E…
Nonprofit Organizations
Management of nonprofit organizations is characterized by several distinctive aspects in relation to human resources, communications, strategic planning and the fallacy of using profitability as an in
Institutional sources of trust in government contracting
This interview-based study explores trust in public-private cooperation by addressing the research questions: what are the main sources of distrust in public-private contracting? And why? We compare two Spanish social services subfields: one with high levels of cross-sector distrust and another one with no distrust between public and private sectors
Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when doing inward work and confrontation and dialogue when d…
The Quest for Public Value
The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks--Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension
Network management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a "whole." By examining the behavioral dimension of network governance, this article identifies a specific tension that network leaders address to effectively govern networks: although unity and diversity are essential to n…
Uniting Diverse Organizations
1. Introduction 2. Advocacy Networks in the U.S. Immigration Field 3. The Core of Goal-Directed Network Management: Uniting in Diversity 4. Building Power and Using It 5. Sustaining the Unity/Diversity Tension 6. Managing Interaction and Decision-Making in Diversity 7. Conclusion. Appendix 1: Research Design and Methodology. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Agents as Brokers
In exploring the leadership practices of chief executives of intergovernmental organizations ( IGO s), this article finds that IGO leaders recognize themselves as agents and as brokers. This article produces findings from a multiple‐case study of the executive leadership of NATO from 1995 to 1999 and of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy from 1999 to 2009. The relationship between member states and the IGO leader can be conceived as a prin…
Treating Global Governance Seriously
Soonhee Kim, Shena Ashley, and W. Henry Lambright, eds., Public Administration in the Context of Global Governance (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014). 256 pp. $117.03/£75.00 (paper), ISBN: 9781783477791; $105.33/£67.50 (eBook), eISBN: 9781783477807. According to the University of Michigan's “Correlates of War” database (www. correlatesofwar.org), there are 332 international intergovernmental organizations (IOs)—i.e., formal organizat…
The Power Dynamics of Mandated Network Administrative Organizations
In understanding what drives the development of network administrative organizations (NAOs) in mandated networks, power bargaining is central. The authors execute a comparative longitudinal case study of NAOs in two policy‐mandated networks. The article focuses specifically on the role of power in these developments and concludes that differences in NAO development arise from power dependencies, which are attributable in part to sector characteri…
The Governance of Goal-Directed Networks and Network Tasks
In this article, we answer the research question “What factors affect the structural complexity of \nnetwork administrative organizations (NAOs)?” The question warrants further research because \nof the lack of empirical studies on the topic. We design a quantitative study of the structure of all \n37 European regulatory networks. Using Bayesian statistics, we analyze the new data set and test \nhypotheses, derived from the literature, about the …
Taking Dimensions of Purpose-Oriented Networks Seriously
Purpose-oriented networks—often referred to as goal-directed networks—are a widely recognized empirical phenomenon in the public administration and management literatures. However, there is no systematic understanding about which characteristics are constitutive for these entities to be present. We use Goetz’s multilevel concept to develop a conceptual framework for purpose-oriented networks that includes four constitutive dimensions: purpose, jo…
Network tasks and accountability
Intergovernmental networks have become a prominent cooperative mechanism to deal with trans‐boundary and interdependent problems. Yet, we still have limited knowledge of how these collaborative endeavours are governed, which is crucial to properly understanding how they function. This article empirically examines the structural governance configurations of rule‐enforcing networks in the European Union. The article relies on data from 37 networks …
A typology of board design for highly effective monitoring in intergovernmental organizations under the United Nations system
The United Nations (UN) system comprises several intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that were established to contribute to the functioning of the overall transnational system of delivering global public goods. However, many IGOs under the UN system are criticized for their failure to accomplish their mandates. Research argues that IGO boards serve as a governance mechanism that should be designed in order to effectively perform the monitoring…
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations
Interactions between the EU and IGOs ˗ such as joint statements, verbal public disagreements, formal cooperation agreements, and IGO dispute resolution involving the EU ˗ have increased in the past decades. We address the question What determines the EU’s interactions with formal IGOs? by carrying out a big data-based sentiment analysis of all news published online between 1999 and 2017. Using over 30,000 events machine-coded by the Global Data E…
The impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on public perceptions of EU security and defence integration
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through Europe and led to rapid policy changes concomitant with variations in citizen perceptions. This article analyses how EU public opinion on security and defence matters has reacted to the war: what patterns of change and continuity can be detected, what differences are visible between Member States, and how might those be explained? Our analysis draws on big data-based sentiment analysis …
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies
Several recent studies have pointed to the increasing relevance of relatively informal, non-treaty-based global governance bodies (GGBs). Yet, a systematic fine-grained assessment of these bodies and their implications for global governance are still pending. To what extent, do non-treaty-based GGBs constitute a truly novel type of governance body, distinct from traditional treaty-based international organizations (IOs)? How do the distinctive fe…
The future(s) of global governance
Pervasive uncertainty has stretched the fabric of global governance to its limit. The shape and form of future global governance is far from clear – yet we need to explore how it may play out, so that we can not only prepare for it but also overcome possible pernicious trajectories. Scenario thinking can be used to rigorously explore different possible outcomes. In this article, we present an exercise applying scenario thinking to global governan…
Institutional Transformations of Global Governance – Key Challenges for International Organisations
This article examines the evolving institutional challenges of global governance by analyzing four key sectors: trade, security, environment, and finance. Recent transformations have increased their complexity and fragmentation in these sectors, challenging the traditional dominance of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Based on the findings of the H2020 GLOBE project and a survey of 1,004 IGO staff, we discuss four major cross-sectoral chal…
China's rise, public opinion, and growing interventionism in South America's electricity industry
The firm logic of parallel lobbying
Inclusiveness-Efficiency Configurations of Business Interest Associations with Access to Policymakers
This article examines the relationship between business interest associations’ (BIAs’) governance configurations and their access to administrative officials and political heads of the European Union. We focus on how effective BIAs design their plenaries and boards to address the inclusiveness-efficiency tradeoff. By means of a qualitative comparative analysis, we find that most of the configurations related to administrative officials balance ef…
Political science (19 works) · Business (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Corporate governance (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Management (8 works)