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Facilitating conditions for boundary-spanning behaviour in governance networks

“…This research approaches commitment as the state of being bound or obligated; it is about the state or quality of being dedicated to something or someone (Hambrick and Cannella 1993). According to Stratman and Roth (2002), executive commitment is the (top) management willingness to support projects by allocating the needed resources (e.g. human, planning, technical, and budgetary means) for successful project implementation.…”

“…By constantly interfering with project managers' daily business, the project implementation will make them authoritative in making decisions. Executive support in this view also means that executive managers will provide discretionary space for project managers to become responsive and responsible people in preparing and implementing the projects (Stratman and Roth 2002). Managers working with a precise assignment from their political principal or from their organizational context have less opportunity to be responsive towards their environment.…”

“…(1) Executive commitment. Commitment is an important aspect in indicating the level of executive support to a project (Kerzner 1987;Stratman and Roth 2002). We used therefore the following statement: 'My principal is strongly committed to this project;' (2) Resources mobilization.…”