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Analyzing Organizational Innovation in Public Services — Conceptual and Theoretical Issues

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Chapter 1 provided the rationale for innovation in all sectors of the economy, specifically to promote economic growth and social development. More generally, societies have to be innovative if it is to protect and promote social well-being within a changing global context. Innovation in the public sector can both support and be supported by a cultural predisposition to social innovation, as will be made clear by subsequent chapters. They focus on organizational innovations that adopt new organizational forms and introduce changes in organizational governance relationships.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Management, University of Tampere, Finland

    Pekka Valkama (Research Director, Adjunct Professor), Stephen J. Bailey (Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Professor of Public Sector Economics) & Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko (Adjunct Professor) (Research Director, Adjunct Professor),  (Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Professor of Public Sector Economics) &  (Adjunct Professor)

  2. Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

    Pekka Valkama (Research Director, Adjunct Professor) (Research Director, Adjunct Professor)

  3. Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

    Stephen J. Bailey (Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Professor of Public Sector Economics) (Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Professor of Public Sector Economics)

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Valkama, P., Bailey, S.J., Anttiroiko, AV. (2013). Analyzing Organizational Innovation in Public Services — Conceptual and Theoretical Issues. In: Valkama, P., Bailey, S.J., Anttiroiko, AV. (eds) Organizational Innovation in Public Services. Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011848_3

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