TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bekkers,V.J.J.M.
AU  - Edelenbos,Jurian
AU  - Steijn,Abraham Jan
TI  - Innovation in the public sector: linking capacity and leadership 
T2  - Governance and public management series
SN  - 0230307523 (electronic bk.)
AV  - JF1525.O73 I57 2011eb
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Administrative agencies
KW  - Management
KW  - Organizational change
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Linking innovation to the public sector: contexts, concepts and challenges / Victor Bekkers; Jurian Edelenbos and Bram Steijn -- Contexts, processes and aspects of innovation. Innovation in the public sector: an introductionary overview / Christopher Pollit -- How common is public sector innovation and how similar is it to private sector innovation / Lars Fuglsang and John Storm Pedersen -- Small states, innovation and administrative capacity / Rainer Kattel, Tiina Randma-Liiv and Tarmo Kalvet -- Public sector innovation at the urban level: the case of public procurement / Veiko Lember, Tarmo Kalvet and Rainer Kattel -- Innovation inside government: the importance of networks / Networks and innovation. Jenny M. Lewis, Mark Considine and Damon Alexander -- Competing values in the management of innovative projects: the case of the RandstadRail Project / Haiko van der Voort ... [et al.] -- Exploring the innovative capacity of intergovernmental network managers: the art of boundary scanning and boundary spanning / Joris Voets and Filip De Rynck -- Innovating entrepreneurship in health care: how health care executives perceive innovation and retain legitimacy / Wilma van der Scheer, Mirko Noordegraaf and Pauline Meurs -- Discussion. An innovative public sector? embarking on the innovation journey / Victor Bekkers, Jurian Edelenbos and Bram Steijn
N2  - "Innovation in the Public Sector addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society, what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?"--Provided by publisher
ER  -