Promoting public sector innovation: who does what, when and how?

IF 2.9 4区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Public Policy and Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI:10.1177/09520767241271848
Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
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A strong and prevailing innovation imperative is sweeping across the public sector and despite a growing literature on public sector innovation (PSI), the actors driving these processes tend to end up in the background of analysis. Based in an analytical framework of narrative theory and organization studies, and the efforts to introduce Social Impact Bonds (SIB) in Sweden as empirical case, the aim of this article is to unpack and analyze the neglected initial stages of PSI. Building on a 4-year qualitative study, the analysis shows that actors promoting PSI narrate the public sector as in need to “open up” for (1) new actors; (2) new services and solutions; and (3) new forms of knowledge. Our findings suggests that the initial stages of PSI are substantially more formative than previously indicated. We show how the innovation at hand function as a discursive node towards which the actors’ storylines gravitate. Despite differences, the actors involved narrate their world similarly constituting discourse coalitions that connects and aligns their interests and objectives. We argue that the early stages of PSI are to be understood as cognitive and narrative struggles, or negotiations. The potentially good news here is that change continuously takes place in processes of PSI, despite narratives of inertia. The potentially bad news is that the same change is difficult to predict, control and govern.
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促进公共部门创新:谁做什么、何时做、如何做?
尽管有关公共部门创新(PSI)的文献越来越多,但推动这些进程的参与者却往往成为分析的背景。本文以叙事理论和组织研究的分析框架为基础,以瑞典引入社会影响债券(SIB)的努力为实证案例,旨在解读和分析被忽视的公共部门创新的初始阶段。基于一项为期 4 年的定性研究,分析表明,促进 PSI 的行动者认为公共部门需要 "开放",以接纳(1)新的行动者;(2)新的服务和解决方案;以及(3)新的知识形式。我们的研究结果表明,公共服务基础设施倡议的初始阶段比以往所指出的更具形成性。我们展示了手头的创新是如何作为一个话语节点发挥作用的,而参与者的故事情节又是如何向这个节点倾斜的。尽管存在差异,但参与其中的行动者以类似的方式叙述他们的世界,构成了话语联盟,将他们的利益和目标联系在一起。我们认为,可以将 PSI 的早期阶段理解为认知和叙事斗争或谈判。这里的好消息可能是,尽管有惯性的说法,但在 PSI 过程中仍会不断发生变化。潜在的坏消息是,同样的变化很难预测、控制和管理。
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Public Policy and Administration
Public Policy and Administration PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-
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11.30
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6.50%
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18
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Public Policy and Administration is the journal of the UK Joint University Council (JUC) Public Administration Committee (PAC). The journal aims to publish original peer-reviewed material within the broad field of public policy and administration. This includes recent developments in research, scholarship and practice within public policy, public administration, government, public management, administrative theory, administrative history, and administrative politics. The journal seeks to foster a pluralistic approach to the study of public policy and administration. International in readership, Public Policy and Administration welcomes submissions for anywhere in the world, from both academic and practitioner communities.
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