TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bekkers,Victor
AU  - Edelenbos,Jurian
AU  - Steijn,Bram
TI  - Innovation in the public sector : linking capacity and leadership 
T2  - Governance and public management series
SN  - 9780230284524
AV  - JF1525.O73 I57 2011
U1  - 352.367 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Administrative agencies
KW  - Management
KW  - Political Science / Government / State & Provincial
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political Science / Political Process / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index; Machine generated contents note: -- Linking Innovation to the Public Sector: Contexts, Concepts and Challenges; V.Bekkers; J.Edelenbos& B.Steijn -- Innovation in the Public Sector: An Introductionary Over view; C.Pollit -- How Common Is Public Sector Innovation and How Similar IS IT to Private Sector Innovation; L.Fuglsang & J.S.Pedersen -- Small States, Innovation and Administrative Capacity; R.Kattel, T.Randma-Liiv & T.Kalvet -- Public Sector Innovation at the Urban Level: The Case of Public Procurement; V.Lember, T.Kalvet& R.Kattel -- Innovation Inside Government: The Importance of Networks; J.M.Lewis, M.Considine& D.Alexander -- Competing Values in the Management of Innovative Projects: The Case of the RandstadRail Project; H.van der Voort, J.Koppenjan, E.ten Heuvelhof, M.Leijten& W.Veeneman -- Exploring the Innovative Capacity of Intergovernmental Network Managers: the Art of Boundary Scanning and Boundary Spanning; J.Voets& F.De Rynck -- Innovating entrepreneurship in health care: How health care executives perceive innovation and retain legitimacy; W.van der Scheer, M.Noordegraaf & P.Meurs -- An Innovative Public Sector? Embarking on the Innovation Journey; V.Bekkers, J.Edelenbos& B.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?"--
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