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An intra-organizational perspective on municipal innovation – Innovation capabilities, barriers and enablers
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation. (Human)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0459-0453
2022 (English)In: International Reasearch Society for Public Management (IRSPM) conference 2022. 19-22 april 2022, virtual conference, 2022Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

There is a pressure for the public sector to promote innovation but the research-based insights into how public sector organizations innovate is still low. Managers are in a constant balancing act between the conflicting demands of exploit and explore where the public sector are challenged by the disruptive nature of innovation. This paper explores the embedded innovation capabilities in a municipal organization by identifying enablers/barriers which affect the readiness to innovate.

The study is a qualitative, instrumental case study based on interviews with managers in a Swedish municipality which investigates the antecedents to innovation, which in turn contributes to knowledge on the managerial balancing act between exploit/explore in an empirical setting. The paper identifies a balancing act which risks defaulting towards optimization rather than innovation because of barriers for innovation being seen existing while enablers are assumed. There is a contested meaning behind innovation, making the balancing act between the known and the unknown which leads to a low readiness to innovate.

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2022.
Keywords [en]
Public sector innovation; Innovation capabilities; Ambidexterity
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Public Administration Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-58166OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-58166DiVA, id: diva2:1656205
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IRSPM 2022-Facing the future: Evolving social-political-administrative relations and the future of administrative systems
Available from: 2022-05-05 Created: 2022-05-05 Last updated: 2022-05-17Bibliographically approved

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