This article brings together empirical academic research on public sector innovation. Via a
systematic literature review, we investigate 181 articles and books on public sector …

This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy
literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain …

There is sufficient evidence, drawn from surveys of innovation in the public sector and
cognitive testing interviews with public sector managers, to develop a framework for …

Existing classifications of public service innovation are largely derived from a private sector
perspective and an internal orientation, overlooking their public value and collaborative …

This article argues that current public management theory is not fit for purpose—if it ever has
been. It argues that it contains two fatal flaws—it focuses on intraorganizational processes at …

Various models have been developed to explain the adoption of e-government but
systematic research on barriers to e-governance is lacking. On the basis of the literature, this …

abstract Innovation research suggests that innovation types have different attributes,
determinants, and effects. This study focuses on consequences of adoption of three types of …

The public sector is under pressure to provide new public services with increasingly scarce
resources. In response, practitioners and academics have called for more innovation in the …

Management innovations (MIs) are widely adopted, but their influences on organizational
performance are little researched in public settings. Positing that the MI-performance …

Innovation in public organizations is widely documented and has increasingly been the
subject of empirical scrutiny. This article integrates the empirical evidence of the internal and …