Permissionless Innovation and Public Policy: A 10-Point Blueprint

Thierer, Adam D.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2761139

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“…Second, the STA case illustrates an example of quantitative audit of shadow innovation in the public sector. Previous studies of, e.g., skunk works (Rich & Janos, 2013) or permissionless innovation (Thierer, 2016) have been conducted through studying single instances rather than the consummate level of shadow innovation. Quantitative assessment at the organisational levels of shadow innovation in the STA can also be regarded as a methodological contribution to study the ambidextrous balance between exploration and exploitation.…”

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Efficiency creep and shadow innovation: enacting ambidextrous IT Governance in the public sector

Magnusson

Koutsikouri

Päivärinta

2020

European Journal of Information Systems

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The current push towards increased innovation within the public sector calls for new approaches to IT Governance. However, recent findings highlight the aim to avoid trade-offs between innovation and efficiency through organisational ambidexterity. This paper reports a case study of ambidextrous IT Governance in two large government agencies. According to the findings, ambidextrous IT Governance is enacted through two separate but interrelated mechanisms that emerge simultaneously. In terms of exploitation, the "efficiency creep" mechanism creates a bias for efficiencyrather than innovation-oriented investments. In terms of exploration, the "shadow innovation" mechanism involves unsanctioned innovation activities. These two mechanisms interplay, in the enactment of ambidextrous IT Governance. The contribution of this study lies in theorising about how ambidextrous IT Governance is enacted in public sector organisations, and how efficiency creep and shadow innovation influence each other. This contribution aids future research and practice on public sector innovation and IT Governance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficiency creep and shadow innovation: enacting ambidextrous IT Governance in the public sector

Magnusson

Koutsikouri

Päivärinta

2020

European Journal of Information Systems

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“…This brings us to one of the most controversial aspects of the ride‐hailing revolution: TNCs' pattern of circumventing regulations. Capitalizing on the desire for more workplace flexibility and autonomy, Uber and Lyft exemplify what Thierer () calls “permissionless innovation” and what Edelman and Geradin (, p. 4) describe as “spontaneous private deregulation”. According to Thierer (2014), permissionless innovation is “the freedom to explore new technologies or businesses without seeing prior approval” and it is often regarded as “the secret sauce that fueled the success of the internet and much of the modern tech economy in recent years” (see also Munger, ; Searles, ).…”

Section: Taxi Regimes and Tncs: Wusacapes Of Exploitation And (De)regmentioning

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Taxi co-ops versus Uber: Struggles for workplace democracy in the sharing economy

Borowiak

2019

Journal of Labor and Society

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Transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft have drawn scrutiny for the way they have upended urban transportation systems and heightened the precarity of taxi drivers. Less attention has been paid to their implications for democratic workplaces. This article provides a comparative study of Uber and Lyft's impacts on taxi worker cooperatives in three cities: Philadelphia, Denver, and Austin. Drawing on interviews with drivers, regulators, and other transportation stakeholders, we observe three major effects. First, TNCs have opened doors for cooperatives by undercutting taxi oligopolies and lowering regulatory barriers to entry. Second, they have intensified market pressures that make it difficult for start‐up co‐ops to survive. Finally, competition from TNCs has led co‐ops to shift resources away from democratic decision making and toward financial bottom lines. These findings paint a complex picture of workplace democracy's potential and limits as a response to the sharing economy's competitive and neoliberal underbelly.

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“…A polycentric system allows simultaneous and parallel practical explorations, while a monocentric one allows only academic theoretical debates. The lack of foresight also raises the hard question of how to effectively regulate innovations that could have highly disruptive, but hard to foresee, consequences (Thierer, 2016).…”

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Governing the banking system: an assessment of resilience based on Elinor Ostrom's design principles

Salter

Tarko

2018

Journal of Institutional Economics

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The problem of financial stability is political and institutional, rather than narrowly economic. To achieve a more resilient financial system, we need to pay attention to the incentives of actors who have the power to act discretionarily, and to the knowledge limitations of such actors in the face of substantial complexity and uncertainty. The literature on polycentric governance and institutional resilience provides key insights that the literature on financial stability has thus far neglected. We offer an analysis based on the “design principles” for robust governance institutions proposed by Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom. We apply these principles to banking systems and explore under what conditions a banking system can be expected to discover rules that align private incentives with broader financial stability, and generate the necessary knowledge to govern such a complex system. This perspective challenges both “microprudential” and “macroprudential” approaches, which assume a monocentric financial and banking regulator.

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Permissionless Innovation and Public Policy: A 10-Point Blueprint

Cited by 31 publications

References 23 publications

Efficiency creep and shadow innovation: enacting ambidextrous IT Governance in the public sector

Efficiency creep and shadow innovation: enacting ambidextrous IT Governance in the public sector

Taxi co-ops versus Uber: Struggles for workplace democracy in the sharing economy

Governing the banking system: an assessment of resilience based on Elinor Ostrom's design principles

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