This book, the first in the Routledge Masters in Public Management series, examines and explains change and innovation in the public sector to provide readers with the skills needed to manage the changes taking place.
The chapters shed light on key issues including: how to conceptualize innovation; how organizations decide between competing good ideas; how to implement innovation; how to contend with challenges to innovation; how to judge success in ...
Rather than presenting a general theory of innovation, the book specifies how innovation and value creation are interconnected with social and institutional elements.
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The book also offers general insights for the theory and practice of managing organizational and systemic change. This book explores the management of change to improve public service effectiveness.
On implementation, Alan Afuah's Innovation Management: Strategies, Implementation and Profits (Oxford University Press, 2003), Osborne and Brown's Managing Change and Innovation in Public Service Organizations (Psychology Press, ...
collaborative systems of employee relations, and that these relations were likely to characterize organizations of the future (Woodward, 1980: 233). In analyzing production systems, Woodward utilizes Robert Dubin's (1959) distinction ...
This report, produced by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, explores how systems approaches can be used in the public sector to solve complex or “wicked” problems.