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Innovators at Risk in the Public Service

In: Challenge Social Innovation

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  • Stuart Conger

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

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.

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  • Stuart Conger, 2012. "Innovators at Risk in the Public Service," Springer Books, in: Hans-Werner Franz & Josef Hochgerner & Jürgen Howaldt (ed.), Challenge Social Innovation, edition 127, pages 139-149, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-32879-4_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32879-4_9
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