Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector by Jacob Torfing (English) Paperba

Description: Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector by Jacob Torfing Network-based collaboration between public and private stakeholders may bring about a renaissance in creative governance. The author draws on extensive research to analyze and promote the emerging field of collaborative innovation. His exploration of processes and the roles of specific systems combine the analytical and theoretical. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse. These network-based collaborations promise to multiply the skills, ideas, energy, and resources between government and its partners across agency boundaries and in the nonprofit and private sectors. Torfing draws on his own pioneering work in Europe as well as examples from the United States and Australia to construct a cross-disciplinary framework for studying collaborative innovation. His analysis explores its complex and interactive processes as he looks at how drivers and barriers may enhance or impede the collaborative approach. He also reflects on the roles institutional design, public management, and governance reform play in spurring collaboration for public sector innovation.The result is a theoretically and empirically informed book that carefully demonstrates how multi-actor collaboration can enhance public innovation in the face of fiscal constraint, the proliferation of wicked problems, and the presence of unsatisfied social needs. Author Biography Jacob Torfing is a professor at Roskilde University and director of the Roskilde School of Governance. He is also a professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Nordland and has been a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the coauthor of Theories of Democratic Network Governance and Democratic Network Governance in Europe. Table of Contents Introduction: Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector 1. Defining and Contextualizing Innovation in the Public Sector 2. Collaborative Interaction as a Source of Public Innovation 3. Towards a Theory of Collaborative Innovation 4. Triggering Innovation and Collaboration 5. Mobilizing and Empowering Actors and Institutionalizing Interaction 6. Enhancing Mutual, Expansive, and Transformative Learning 7. Making and Implementing Bold and Creative Decisions 8. Diffusing Public Innovation through Collaborative Networks 9. Enhancing Collaborative Innovation through Leadership and Management 10. Reforming Public Governance, Enhancing Collaborative Innovation Conclusion: Summary Propositions about Collaborative Innovation ReferencesIndexAbout the Author Review Makes an important and comprehensive contribution . . . [and] a major impact on the literature of public administration. * CHOICE *Has a noble and vital purpose, and it succeeds very well in accomplishing its goal. . . . Anyone who is genuinely interested in positive or even palliative change will do well to read this authentically pioneering work. . . . A remarkable achievement. * The Innovation Journal * Promotional In this path-breaking book, Torfing shows how collaborative innovation is an important component of new public governance and an essential approach to dealing with wicked societal problems that inescapably cross organizational boundaries. His work will be of abiding interest to both scholars and practitioners -- Sandford Borins, Professor of Public Management, University of Toronto; Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector is a highly-recommended resource for researchers and informed practitioners interested in public sector governance networks. The book explores theories and research on how governance networks can and do produce innovations. Most importantly, readers learn how collaboration, activated throughout all phases of the innovation process, can increase the potential for innovation in governance networks to occur. The books propositions set the agenda for the next generation of research on collaboration and innovation in governance networks. -- Nancy Roberts, Professor Emerita, Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School Prizes Winner of Outstanding Academic Book of the Year 6 (United States) Long Description Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse. These network-based collaborations promise to multiply the skills, ideas, energy, and resources between government and its partners across agency boundaries and in the nonprofit and private sectors. Torfing draws on his own pioneering work in Europe as well as examples from the United States and Australia to construct a cross-disciplinary framework for studying collaborative innovation. His analysis explores its complex and interactive processes as he looks at how drivers and barriers may enhance or impede the collaborative approach. He also reflects on the roles institutional design, public management, and governance reform play in spurring collaboration for public sector innovation. The result is a theoretically and empirically informed book that carefully demonstrates how multi-actor collaboration can enhance public innovation in the face of fiscal constraint, the proliferation of wicked problems, and the presence of unsatisfied social needs. Review Quote Has a noble and vital purpose, and it succeeds very well in accomplishing its goal. . . . Anyone who is genuinely interested in positive or even palliative change will do well to read this authentically pioneering work. . . . A remarkable achievement. Details ISBN162616360X Author Jacob Torfing Short Title COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION IN TH Publisher Georgetown University Press Language English ISBN-10 162616360X ISBN-13 9781626163607 Media Book Format Paperback Affiliation Professor in Politics and Institutions, Roskilde University Universit Year 2016 Imprint Georgetown University Press Place of Publication Washington, DC Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2016-11-01 UK Release Date 2016-10-04 NZ Release Date 2016-11-01 US Release Date 2016-11-01 Illustrations 8 Figures; 2 Tables, unspecified Pages 368 Series Public Management and Change series DEWEY 352 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2016-10-31 Alternative 9781626163614 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136546790;

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