Policy labs as arenas for boundary spanning: inside the digital transformation in Germany
研究了德国三个数字化实验室如何通过边界跨越促进创新政策设计，同时引发公共问责担忧，对公共管理者和政策制定者有参考价值。
The recently adopted German Online Access Act triggered the creation of digitalization labs for designing digital services, bringing together federal, state, and local authorities; end-users; and private-sector actors. These labs provide opportunities for boundary spanning due to organizational field and lab features. Our comparative case studies on three digitalization labs show variations in boundary spanning and reveal lab members de-coupling from their parent organizations to a varying extent. We have concluded labs offer boundary spanning that supports safeguarding the legitimacy of innovative policy designs but also raise concerns over public accountability.