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Approach with care? A study on risk behaviour and innovation in the public sector

  • The main aim of this dissertation is to explore how public professionals‘ risk behaviours affect the management of innovation processes. It addresses a gap in the literature because although risk is inseparable form innovation processes, there is very little literature focusing directly on the question of how risk affects innovation in the public sector context. The dissertation analyses this question in three main chapters: Chapter 2 asks ‗what types of risk do innovation managers perceive?‘ Through a qualitative analysis of interviews with ‗innovation managers‘ in Copenhagen municipality, the chapter finds that public managers and professionals working on public service innovation perceive different types of risk related to innovation depending on their position in the administrative hierarchy and on their proximity to service users. The analysis also showed that there is hardly any communication across hierarchical levels or policy divisions about risk. This can lead to intra-organisational conflicts that block innovation processes, and to blind spots in attempts to manage the risks of innovation. Chapter 3 focuses on whether blame and credit expectations impact support for innovation. This question is examined through a quasi-experimental research design consisting of an ‗experimental vignette survey‘ where respondents were assigned to different treatment groups and the effect of being promised blame or credit for innovation outcomes was analysed. The findings show that contrary to common expectations, how much respondents thought the innovation was beneficial was a much stronger predictor of whether they would support it than the expectation of blame or credit. At the very least, this questions the assumption that blame aversion is a primary behavioural barrier to innovation.(...)

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Metadaten
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Author(s):Krista TimeusORCiD
Advisor:Kai Wegrich
Referee:Stephen P. Osborne, Gerhard HammerschmidORCiD
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (05/2017)
Publication year:2017
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Granting Institution:Hertie School
Thesis date:2017/06/30
Number pages:IX, 167
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-2304
Release Date:2017/08/04
Notes:
Shelf mark: 2017D001 + 2017D001+1
Hertie School Research:Publications PhD Researchers
Licence of document (German):Metadaten (öffentlich), Volltext (zugriffsbeschränkt)
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