Two decades of public sector innovation: building an analytical framework from a systematic literature review of types, strategies, conditions, and results

JI Criado, L Alcaide-Muñoz, I Liarte - Public Management Review, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Scholarly attention in innovation in the public sector is growing rapidly, provoking analytical
complexity. We developed a systematic literature review about Public Sector Innovation …

Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership

C Callens - Public Administration, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent innovation research in the public sector demonstrates the advantages of
collaborative innovation, but also recognizes the complex character of collaborative …

Activation policy: bruised and battered but still standing

NA Andersen, F Larsen - Policy and Society, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Policies aimed at upskilling, motivating and/or disciplining the unemployed have remained a
cornerstone of most OECD countries' employment policies since the 1990s. Central to these …

Unlocking the process of collaborative innovation-Combining mechanisms of divergence and convergence

C Callens, K Verhoest - Public Management Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, collaborative innovation of public services has become a growing research
field. However, how collaborative arrangements lead to innovation remains quite unclear …

The expansion of alternative forms of organizing integration: Imitation, bricolage, and an ethic of care in migrant women's cooperatives

MJ Zapata Campos - Journal of Business Ethics, 2024 - Springer
This paper examines how alternative forms of organising integration in resource-scarce
environments expand across settings, by considering the role of local embeddedness and …

[HTML][HTML] Silencing Mechanisms in Academia: Towards Collaborative Innovation to Support Critical Social Science

MF Özbilgin, C Erbil - Administrative Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Critical social science (CSS) is a framework of social science that questions uneven
relations of power to achieve transformative change towards equitable social outcomes …

The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below

M Norbäck, MJ Zapata Campos - Social Policy & Administration, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the challenges and opportunities for novel governance instruments for
labour market inclusion of foreign‐born citizens, developed by local governments in …

Designing cross‐sector collaboration to foster technological innovation: Empirical insights from ehealth partnerships in five countries

K Verhoest, C Callens, EH Klijn… - Public Administration …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the impact of partnership design on technological innovation in public‐
private innovation partnerships. It develops two competing hypotheses on how specific …

Producing Agreements and Innovations in Collaborative Governance

SB Page, C Thomas, M Kern, A Murphy… - Perspectives on Public …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Collaborative governance initiatives often seek innovative solutions to longstanding policy
dilemmas, as well as agreements on those solutions among longtime political adversaries …

Cross‐sectoral frontline delivery of welfare‐to‐work services for young adults with complex problems in Norway

FM Bakken, K van der Wel - Social Policy & Administration, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Activation policies have increasingly targeted new and 'hard‐to‐serve'clients with complex
needs, often deprived of the labour market experience, health, skills, and competencies that …