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Information Science & Library Science
Lan Cao, Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Barry West, Kannan Mohan, Sumantra Sarkar
Summary: Innovation in the public sector is crucial for improving public service quality and addressing economic and societal challenges. However, there has been limited research on how organizations can achieve ambidexterity in the public sector, which is characterized by unique constraints. This study identifies a platform-based approach that can help public sector organizations achieve a balance between exploitative and exploratory innovations. The study also highlights the importance of practices in platform development, appropriation, and control for the success of this approach.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Social Issues
Priyanka, Mahima Jain, Sanjay Dhir
Summary: This paper empirically examines the role of different organizational factors on organizational ambidexterity (OA) and compares the results for private and public sector firms in the Indian manufacturing industry. The study finds that these organizational factors have a different impact on OA in the public and private sectors.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Beniamino Callegari, Ranvir S. Rai
Summary: Blended ambidexterity seems to be a necessity for large firms in the financial sector; driving the development of sector-specific innovative capabilities requires top-down reforms and bottom-up reactions; current taxonomies of ambidexterity should be reinterpreted as stages in a long-term process of transition.
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Business
Muthu De Silva, Jeremy Howells, Zaheer Khan, Martin Meyer
Summary: The different roles played by public innovation intermediaries in collaborative projects have a differential impact on in-house innovation. The knowledge integration role contributes to exploratory innovation, while the network building role contributes to exploitative innovation. Relational and internal capabilities mediate between these roles and innovation.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2022)
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Economics
Valeriu Nalban, Andra Smadu
Summary: This study quantitatively evaluates spillover effects originating from sectoral labor market shocks in an emerging economy, Romania. The findings suggest that public job creation crowds out private sector employment, while increases in private sector employment lead to sizable crowding in effects on public sector employees. Therefore, it is recommended that labor market policies target primarily private sector developments.
ECONOMIC MODELLING
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yunhui Zhao, Xue Zhang, Wenbo Jiang, Taiwen Feng
Summary: This study reveals that second-order social capital from both customers and suppliers has positive effects on green innovation. The balanced dimension and combined dimension play a moderating role in the influence of second-order social capital on green innovation.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
Review
Management
Rui Mu, Huanming Wang
Summary: Based on the PRISMA approach, this article presents a systematic review of the differences in barriers and governance strategies between digital and non-digital open innovation (OI). The findings show that relational barriers are more influential in non-digital OI, while capacity- and technical-related barriers pose the main challenges in digital OI. Additionally, the study reveals that political commitment and the use of intermediaries are universal strategies for OI, while coercive and mandate strategies are effective only for inter-governmental OI.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Management
Emre Cinar, Christopher Simms, Paul Trott, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu
Summary: This study analyzes the role of national context in public sector innovation by comparing innovation cases from Italy, Japan, and Turkey, and provides empirical evidence for a national-context framework.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
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Political Science
David Szakonyi
Summary: Businessperson politicians tend to prioritize policies favorable to the business community, such as increasing expenditures on economic infrastructure like roads and transport. They do not reduce budget deficits and adopt less competitive methods for selecting contractors, particularly in corruption-prone construction sectors. Overall, they make government run more for business interests rather than like a business.
JOURNAL OF POLITICS
(2021)
Article
Business
Qi Zou, Zijun Mao, Rongxiao Yan, Shuai Liu, Zheng Duan
Summary: Leveraging e-government development to improve governance has become a shared vision of governments in the digital age. However, the internal mechanism for e-government to promote governance and the extent to which it affects governance remain uncertain. This study analyzed the internal mechanism behind global e-government promoting governance improvement using public value theory and empirical tests covering 170 countries from 2010 to 2018. The results showed that e-government development as a whole promoted governance improvement, but the effects on different dimensions of governance were heterogeneous.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Marine
Trond Selnes, Else Giesbers, Sander W. K. van den Burg
Summary: The European seaweed sector is transitioning from harvesting wild stocks to harvesting and farming seaweed, necessitating a rethinking of its role on a global scale and the need for insight into the global seaweed value chain organization and innovation. Innovation in seaweed usage is occurring globally, with a focus on high-value applications not being enough to distinguish the nascent European sector from established regions such as Asia. Stronger collaboration and joint efforts are needed in developing safe and sustainable products to meet regulatory, lead firm, and consumer demands in order to facilitate further business development.
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Business
Jiang Yu, Jing Jin, Feng Chen, Yue Zhang
Summary: This article explores the interaction among institutional, technological, and partnerships' changes in public service innovation, using China's electronic healthcare evolution as a case study. The findings suggest that successful implementation of public service innovation requires utilizing existing institutions and strategically designing institutional changes to trigger technological and partnerships' changes. Implications for institutional design in public service innovation are discussed.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Zhengyong Zhang, Xuan Dai, Yi Ding
Summary: Based on government work reports from 2007 to 2019 in 230 Chinese prefecture-level cities, we develop a new metric for government environmental governance using Python crawler technology. By analyzing data from listed firms in heavy pollution industries, we find that government environmental governance significantly stimulates firms' green innovation while crowding out other innovation activities. Further examination reveals that government environmental governance enhances green innovation in terms of both production endpoints and sources, making substantial contributions to both substantive and strategic green innovation. Moreover, the positive association shows heterogeneity based on property rights and firm sizes.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Management
Hannu Torvinen, Kaisu Jansson
Summary: This case study examines the impact of a public sector innovation laboratory on the innovation barriers in public health care. The findings suggest that altering approaches to interaction, commercialization, mutual learning, and independence can effectively address barriers related to complexity and organizational competences, although the impact on risk-aversion and bureaucracy is limited.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Berkegui Oubedatou Sinatoko Djibo, Emmanuel Mensah Horsey, Shuliang Zhao
Summary: This study analyzes the impact of government institutional support on eco-innovation adoption and the moderating role of market performance. The findings demonstrate that government support positively affects eco-innovation, but market performance negatively moderates this relationship. Therefore, collaboration between government and enterprises is crucial for promoting eco-innovation adoption.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
