This article presents a review of the recent literature on change management in public
organizations and sets out to explore the extent to which this literature has responded to …

This paper is a systematic review of the literature on organizational learning and knowledge
with relevance to public service organizations. Organizational learning and knowledge are …

There are growing pressures for the public sector to be more innovative but considerable
disagreement about how to achieve it. This article uses institutional and organizational …

Three approaches to innovation in the public sector in the post war period are identified and
analysed for their implications for policy-makers, managers and citizens. Various …

This paper investigates how key elements of school culture are associated with teachers'
capacity to find and act on new information. We analyzed survey data from 3,579 teachers …

This paper presents the first empirical test of innovation type and diffusion in local
government. Five types of innovations–one product, three process and one ancillary–were …

Over the last thirty years, scholars of health care organizations have been searching for
concepts and images to illuminate their underlying, and shifting, modes of organizing …

This article discusses the government's use of inter-organizational networks to promote
sharing of knowledge and innovation between public service organizations. It analyses the …

This article examines links between innovation and inter-organizational learning in the
context of public service reform. The theory-building and empirical research draws on …

This paper studies multilevel networks, in which municipalities collaborate with higher tiers
of government (upward collaboration), with peers (outward) and with local stakeholders …