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Innovation in City Governments - Structures, Networks, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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Innovation in City Governments - Structures, Networks, and Leadership (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
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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.
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