Innovators at Risk in the Public Service

Stuart Conger ()
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Stuart Conger: Retired from Canadian Ministry for Human Resources and Skills Development

A chapter in Challenge Social Innovation, 2012, pp 139-149 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Innovation is a threat to the status quo in the public service and therefore there are many barriers for the innovator. Several of the barriers will be illustrated including: (1) top management desires innovation but is stymied by special interests deeper in the organization; (2) management thinks its innovative by instituting only incremental change; (3) management initiates an innovation without adequate support; (4) the apparent buy-in by various levels of management masks their opposition; and (5) the arrival of new management with a new agenda. Innovators have a short life expectancy in government.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Orientation; Risk Tolerance; Senior Executive; National Union; Auditor General (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32879-4_9

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