TY - JOUR
T1 - Reflections on Leadership
T2 - Jean-Jacques Dordain of the European Space Agency
AU - Lambright, W. Henry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by The American Society for Public Administration.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - In 2015, Jean-Jacques Dordain retired as director general of the European Space Agency (ESA). This is Europe's NASA and includes a host of sovereign nations that differ in language, culture, economics, and politics. As ESA's director general, Dordain pulled together a disparate and often quarreling group of countries and got them moving in the same direction. Billions of dollars were involved in a sequence of large-scale, complex spaceflights. Successes far surpassed failures. Dordain stated that if there is one area of administration about which ESA could teach the world, it is "that of international cooperation. Very simple-it's because ESA is an institutional cooperation venture." In this Administrative Profile, Dordain comments on the issues he faced in guiding European cooperation as well as relations with the United States and other countries.
AB - In 2015, Jean-Jacques Dordain retired as director general of the European Space Agency (ESA). This is Europe's NASA and includes a host of sovereign nations that differ in language, culture, economics, and politics. As ESA's director general, Dordain pulled together a disparate and often quarreling group of countries and got them moving in the same direction. Billions of dollars were involved in a sequence of large-scale, complex spaceflights. Successes far surpassed failures. Dordain stated that if there is one area of administration about which ESA could teach the world, it is "that of international cooperation. Very simple-it's because ESA is an institutional cooperation venture." In this Administrative Profile, Dordain comments on the issues he faced in guiding European cooperation as well as relations with the United States and other countries.
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U2 - 10.1111/puar.12548
DO - 10.1111/puar.12548
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963684507
SN - 0033-3352
VL - 76
SP - 507
EP - 511
JO - Public Administration Review
JF - Public Administration Review
IS - 3
ER -