Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation?
基于19个欧洲国家的调查数据，研究了市场化、结果导向和协作三类管理改革对公共部门创新的影响，发现协作和结果导向改革促进创新，而市场化改革无显著影响。
Abstract A key question of public sector innovation (PSI) scholarship is: which factors influence innovation? This paper focuses on managerial practices as drivers of PSI and addresses two research questions. First, how have the main types of managerial reforms—pertaining to marketization, results‐orientation, and collaboration—influenced PSI? Second, how have different features of public sector reform strategies influenced PSI? Using survey data from 19 European countries, we show that reforms focusing on collaboration and results‐orientation facilitate PSI, while marketization‐type reforms have no significant impact. Our study indicates that reforms initiated by public administration (rather than politicians) are more conducive to PSI. We also show that reforms that are crisis‐driven and reforms oriented toward cost cutting have negative impacts on PSI. Overall, our findings demonstrate that New Public Governance‐type reforms exert more positive influence on PSI than NPM‐type reforms.