Hartley, Jean; Sørensen, Eva and Torfing, Jacob
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12136 |
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Abstract
There are growing pressures for the public sector to be more innovative but considerable disagreement about how to achieve it. This paper uses institutional and organizational analysis to compare three major but different public innovation strategies. The paper commences by confronting the myth that the market-driven private sector is more innovative than the public sector by showing that both sectors have a number of barriers as well as drivers of innovation, some of which are similar while others are sector-specific. The paper then systematically analyses the three strategies for innovation. These are: New Public Management which emphasises market competition; the neo-Weberian state which emphasises organizational entrepreneurship; and collaborative governance which emphasises multi-actor engagement across organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. The article concludes that the choice between different strategies for enhancing public innovation is contingent rather than absolute. Some contingencies for each strategy are outlined.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2013 The American Society for Public Administration |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business > Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) |
| Research Group: | Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD) |
| Item ID: | 38011 |
| Depositing User: | Christopher Biggs |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2013 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2018 14:51 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/38011 |
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