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As part of the research agenda of the Policy Research Centre on sustainable materials management (SuMMa), this paper advances an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of Flanders’ transition to sustainable materials management. We apply both political science’s structure perspective as well as organizational science’s agency perspective to investigate the role of Flanders’ materials policy program that supports this transition. This offers a dual systemic view on the materials domain with its existing and developing policy arrangements and on the leadership processes that steer it. Our exploration of the interplay between the structure and agency perspectives aims to advance conceptual enrichment for both disciplines and to propose working hypotheses for future research.