Innovation in the public sector
Subtitle: linking capacity and leadership
By: edited by Victor Bekkers, Jurian Edelenbos, Bram Steijn
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780230284524
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / State & Provincial; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General; Management; Administrative agencies; Organizational change
Description: "Innovation in the Public Sector addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society, what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Linking Innovation to the Public Sector: Contexts, Concepts and Challenges; V.Bekkers; J.Edelenbos& B.Steijn; title: Innovation in the Public Sector: An Introductionary Over view; C.Pollit; title: How Common Is Public Sector Innovation and How Similar IS IT to Private Sector Innovation; L.Fuglsang & J.S.Pedersen; title: Small States, Innovation and Administrative Capacity; R.Kattel, T.Randma-Liiv & T.Kalvet; title: Public Sector Innovation at the Urban Level: The Case of Public Procurement; V.Lember, T.Kalvet& R.Kattel; title: Innovation Inside Government: The Importance of Networks; J.M.Lewis, M.Considine& D.Alexander; title: Competing Values in the Management of Innovative Projects: The Case of the RandstadRail Project; H.van der Voort, J.Koppenjan, E.ten Heuvelhof, M.Leijten& W.Veeneman; title: Exploring the Innovative Capacity of Intergovernmental Network Managers: the Art of Boundary Scanning and Boundary Spanning; J.Voets& F.De Rynck; title: Innovating entrepreneurship in health care: How health care executives perceive innovation and retain legitimacy; W.van der Scheer, M.Noordegraaf & P.Meurs; title: An Innovative Public Sector? Embarking on the Innovation Journey; V.Bekkers, J.Edelenbos& B.Steijn.