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      Innovation in City Governments
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      Innovation in City Governments book

      Structures, Networks, and Leadership

      Innovation in City Governments

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      Innovation in City Governments book

      Structures, Networks, and Leadership
      ByJenny M. Lewis, Lykke Margot Ricard, Erik Hans Klijn, Tamyko Ysa Figueras
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 13 December 2016
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315673202
      Pages 206
      eBook ISBN 9781315673202
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Politics & International Relations, Urban Studies
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      Lewis, J.M., Ricard, L.M., Klijn, E.H., & Figueras, T.Y. (2016). Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315673202

      ABSTRACT

      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:

      1. Structure - national governance and traditions, the local socioeconomic context, and the municipal structure
      2. Networks – interpersonal connections inside and outside the organization
      3. 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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |2 pages

      Part I Innovation Capacity: A Framework for Analysis

      chapter 1|19 pages

      The Public Sector Innovation Puzzle

      chapter 2|20 pages

      Structures and Innovation

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Social Networks and Innovation

      chapter 4|21 pages

      Leadership and Innovation

      part |2 pages

      Part II A Comparison of Three Cities: Barcelona, Copenhagen

      chapter 5|23 pages

      The Innovation Environment: Governance Structures and Economic Challenges

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Innovation Capacity: Drivers and Supports

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Innovation Networks: Connections and Brokerage

      chapter 8|15 pages

      Fostering Innovation: Leadership

      part |2 pages

      Part III Conclusions: What Supports Innovation in City Governments?

      chapter 9|13 pages

      Modelling Innovation

      chapter 10|7 pages

      Supporting Innovation in City Governments

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