Collaborative innovation in the public sector / Jacob Torfing.

ISBN:

9781626163614

Title:

Author:

Torfing, Jacob, author.

Personal Author:

Torfing, Jacob, author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Series:

Public management and change series

Public management and change.

Contents:

Introduction : collaborative innovation in the public sector -- Defining and contextualizing innovation in the public sector -- Collaborative interaction as a source of public innovation -- Towards a theory of collaborative innovation -- Triggering innovation and collaboration -- Mobilizing and empowering actors and institutionalizing interaction -- Enhancing mutual, expansive and transformative learning -- Making and implementing bold and creative decisions -- Diffusing public innovation through collaborative networks -- Enhancing collaborative innovation through leadership and management -- Reforming public governance / enhancing collaborative innovation -- Conclusion: summary propositions about collaborative innovation.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Public administration.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Intergovernmental cooperation.

Administration publique (Science)

Partenariat public-privé.

Coopération intergouvernementale.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.

Intergovernmental cooperation

Public administration

Public-private sector cooperation

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2016

Publication Information:

Washington, DC :

Georgetown University Press,

[2016]

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Summary

Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse. These network-based collaborations promise to multiply the skills, ideas, energy, and resources between government and its partners across agency boundaries and in the nonprofit and private sectors.

Torfing draws on his own pioneering work in Europe as well as examples from the United States and Australia to construct a cross-disciplinary framework for studying collaborative innovation. His analysis explores its complex and interactive processes as he looks at how drivers and barriers may enhance or impede the collaborative approach. He also reflects on the roles institutional design, public management, and governance reform play in spurring collaboration for public sector innovation. The result is a theoretically and empirically informed book that carefully demonstrates how multi-actor collaboration can enhance public innovation in the face of fiscal constraint, the proliferation of wicked problems, and the presence of unsatisfied social needs.

Author Notes

Jacob Torfing is a professor at Roskilde University and director of the Roskilde School of Governance. He is also a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Nordland and has been a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coauthor of Theories of Democratic Network Governance and Democratic Network Governance in Europe .

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This book by Torfing (Roskilde Univ.) makes an important and comprehensive contribution to the understanding of collaborative innovation in the public sector. Replete with theoretical and empirical support for its conclusions, it makes a major impact on the literature of public administration. Torfing points out that there is a "dearth of studies focusing on collaborative innovation," and the purpose of the book is to demonstrate "that collaborative innovation is a key tool for public value production" in facing the challenges in the public sector. It is also timely given citizens' demand for the public sector to provide key services and tackle difficult problems.The book is well organized, painstakingly researched, and thorough in its arguments. One of its strongest features is its reliance on multidisciplinary literature and examples from governments on multiple continents to point out the strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities of collaborative innovation in the public sector to take on pressing problems. The book is a must for scholars in public administration, practitioners, and graduate students, and for upper-level undergraduates with a solid background in public administration. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. --Chad Kinsella, Ball State University