2001
DOI: 10.1108/14691930110400128
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Encouraging innovation in the public sector

Abstract: The public sector has traditionally been considered inhospitable to innovation, particularly innovations initiated by middle managers and front‐line staff. Unlike the private sector, the public sector is characterized by asymmetric incentives that punish unsuccessful innovations much more severely than they reward successful ones, by the absence of venture capital to seed creative problem solving, and by adverse selection by innovative individuals against public service careers. A growing body of evidence base… Show more

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“…Collaborative innovation is an uncertain outcome to invest in when individual organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver much more for much less. However, highly innovative public sector organisations do appear to have an external orientation and promote and learn from cross sector working at middle manager or front line levels (Osborne, 1998;Borins, 2001). There is an urgent need to understand and describe how this successful approach works in order to look at new ways of working in a changing public sector world.…”
Section: Implications For Practice and Further Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Collaborative innovation is an uncertain outcome to invest in when individual organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver much more for much less. However, highly innovative public sector organisations do appear to have an external orientation and promote and learn from cross sector working at middle manager or front line levels (Osborne, 1998;Borins, 2001). There is an urgent need to understand and describe how this successful approach works in order to look at new ways of working in a changing public sector world.…”
Section: Implications For Practice and Further Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On souligne souvent les obstacles à l'innovation dans le secteur public liés à l'insuffisance de réelles mesures incitatives (Landeau, 1993), à la prolifération des règles et procédures (Barzelay, 1992), au fait que les gestionnaires ne sont pas impliqués dans l'élaboration des finalités de l'action (Moore, 1995), à l'aversion au risque des politiciens et des gestionnaires (Borins, 2001), à la contrainte imposée par une gestion de la performance non axée sur les résultats (Newman, 2001), etc. Au-delà de ce discours, les données empiriques montrent éga-lement que l'innovation est possible dans le secteur public (Earl, 2002, cité dans Windrum et Koch, 2008.…”
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“…Comme le résume Albury (2011), l'un des problèmes majeurs en matière d'innovation a trait à la diffusion de ces dernières, ce qui a d'ailleurs encouragé certains États, tels le Canada, les États-Unis et la GrandeBretagne, à mettre en place des programmes de « récompense » de l'innovation (Bernier et autres, 2011;Borins, 2008;Hartley, 2008), pour inciter les organisations publiques à innover mais aussi pour permettre la diffusion de meilleures pratiques. L'innovation dans le secteur public : au-delà des discours Analyse critique de la littérature scientifique portant sur l'innovation dans le secteur public : bilan et perspectives de recherche prometteuses 3En dépit de son importance dans le contexte actuel, l'innovation dans le secteur public a relativement été peu étudiée : ce n'est qu'à la fin des années 1990, que l'on a vu croître l'intérêt de recherche pour ce thème (Borins, 2001). …”
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“…For a long time, considerable attention has been given to the dynamically developing tertiary sector (Kellerman, 1985;Borins, 2001). In the worldwide globalized economic space, it is often about the balance between the degree of autocracy and openness of national and regional economies, intensified by the innovative trends.…”
Section: Review Of Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%