Innovation in City Governments

Structures, Networks, and Leadership

Jenny M. Lewis, Lykke Margot Ricard, Erik Hans Klijn , Tamyko Ysa Figueras

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English

Routledge
08 June 2018

Politics & government; Civil service & public sector

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

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:

Structure - national governance and traditions, the local socioeconomic context, and the municipal structure

Networks – interpersonal connections inside and outside the organization

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.

By: Jenny M. Lewis, Lykke Margot Ricard, Erik Hans Klijn, Tamyko Ysa Figueras
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9781138617216
ISBN 10: 1138617210
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 08 June 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jenny M. Lewis is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Lykke Margot Ricard is Senior Adviser on Innovation at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Erik Hans Klijn is Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Erasmus University, Netherlands. Tamyko Ysa Figueras is Associate Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management in ESADE Business School, Spain.

Reviews for Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership

If you are interested in how social structure can deeply influence social innovation outcomes, or in jump-starting social innovation in your city, this book will provide clear insights about how the way we lead, organize, and interact affects the way we innovate as a society. -Michael W-P Fortunato, Sam Houston State University, USA