ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how organizational change and innovation in a health care setting also relates to the policy narratives. Policy narratives of innovations are policy instruments to guide the political expectations of how to become an innovative health care organization. The three dominating public management perspectives include public administration, new public management, and network governance, in addition to each perspective’s core concepts and assumptions for steering and organizing. Policy narratives are inspired by different sets of public management ideas over time. This means the criteria for legitimation of innovative hospital organizing is evolving as it connects to different public management assumptions and perspectives. The findings were derived from a document study of a specific policy context, the empirical data was collected through a historical document analysis of public innovation policies in Denmark from 1999 to 2012. The data collection process initially began with the collection of policy documents to identify the policy narratives.
