Innovation in City Governments

Structures, Networks, and Leadership
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-94231-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations. Some are now calling this ‘social innovation’ – innovation that is related to creating new services that have value for stakeholders (such as citizens) in terms of the social and political outcomes they produce.

Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership establishes an analytical framework of innovation capacity based on three dimensions:

- Structure - national governance and traditions, the local socioeconomic context, and the municipal structure

- Networks – interpersonal connections inside and outside the organization

- Leadership – the qualities and capabilities of senior individuals within the organization.

Each of these are analysed using data from a comparative EU research project in Copenhagen, Barcelona and Rotterdam.

The book provides major new insights on how structures, networks and leadership in city governments shape the social innovation capacity of cities. It provides ground-breaking analyses of how governance structures and local socio-economic challenges, are related to the innovations introduced by these cities. The volume maps and analyses the social networks of the three cities and examines boundary spanning within and outside of the cities. It also examines what leadership qualities are important for innovation.

Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership combines an original analytical approach with comparative empirical work, to generate a novel perspective on the social innovation capacity of cities and is critical reading for academics, students and policy makers alike in the fields of Public Management, Public Administration, Local Government, Policy, Innovation and Leadership.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Jenny M.

Ricard, Lykke Margot

Klijn, Erik Hans

Figueras, Tamyko Ysa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Innovation Capacity: A Framework for Analysis

1. The Public Sector Innovation Puzzle

2. Structures and Innovation

3. Social Networks and Innovation

4. Leadership and Innovation

Part 2: A Comparison of Three Cities: Barcelona, Copenhagen and Rotterdam

5. The Innovation Environment: Governance Structures and Economic Challenges

6. Innovation Capacity: Drivers and Supports

7. Innovation Networks: Connections and Brokerage

8. Fostering Innovation: Leadership

Part 3: Conclusions: What Supports Innovation in City Governments?

9. Linking Structures, Networks, Leadership and Innovation

10. Supporting Innovation in City Governments

Über Autor(innen)

Jenny M. Lewis is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Lykke Margot Ricard is Senior Adviser on Innovation at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Erik Hans Klijn is Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Erasmus University, Netherlands.

Tamyko Ysa Figueras is Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management in ESADE Business School, Spain.