Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector (Public Management and Change) - Hardcover

Torfing, Jacob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626163596 ISBN 13: 9781626163591

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Public sector innovation is important because the pressures of growing expectations from citizens, budget crunches, and a surge of complex governance problems cannot be solved by standard government solutions or increased funding.  In order to innovate, government increasingly needs to collaborate with networks of partners across agency boundaries and especially with the nonprofit and private sectors to find new solutions.  This interaction within a network can enhance creative and effective governance solutions.  In this book, Jacob Torfing closely examines the link between network-based collaborative governance and innovation, proposes a framework for the study of collaborative innovation, and discusses this approach in light of theoretical insights from other disciplines and from examples of public innovation drawn from the United States, Europe, and Australia.  This book will move scholars closer to being able to develop a theory of collaborative innovation.  

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Review

Has a noble and vital purpose, and it succeeds very well in accomplishing its goal. . . . Anyone who is genuinely interested in positive or even palliative change will do well to read this authentically pioneering work. . . . A remarkable achievement.

--The Innovation Journal

Makes an important and comprehensive contribution . . . [and] a major impact on the literature of public administration.

--CHOICE

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1626163596
• ISBN 13: 9781626163591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364