Organizational and managerial innovation in French inter-municipal communities, between adaptation strategy and anticipatory strategy?
Local governments and particularly the french inter-municipal communities undergo profound changes of their intervention framework. The different answers are different and some may fall within the scope of managerial and organizational innovations. Still need to qualify them, understand them, and measure their scope. The objective of this article is to provide a first light on these dimensions, for a panel of EPCI in a french region, we lean to the results of a quantitative survey and a qualitative investigation work. Our contribution finally intended to better clarify the definitions, contours and factors specific ways to such innovations in these singular structures on institutional and territorial field.