IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/pubmgr/v16y2014i1p45-66.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Innovation-Oriented Culture in the Public Sector: Do managerial autonomy and result control lead to innovation?

Author

Listed:
  • Wynen
  • Verhoest
  • Ongaro
  • van Thiel
  • in cooperation with the COBRA network

Abstract

This article examines the effect of specific new public management (NPM)-related characteristics to explain innovation-oriented culture within public sector organizations. According to NPM doctrines, an enhanced managerial autonomy combined with result control will stimulate a more innovation-oriented culture in such organizations. Using multi-country survey data of over 200 public sector agencies, we test for the influence of organizational autonomy, result control and their interactions, on innovation-oriented culture. High levels of managerial autonomy and result control have independent and positive effects. However, the interaction between high personnel management autonomy and high result control has a negative effect.

Suggested Citation

  • Wynen & Verhoest & Ongaro & van Thiel & in cooperation with the COBRA network, 2014. "Innovation-Oriented Culture in the Public Sector: Do managerial autonomy and result control lead to innovation?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(1), pages 45-66, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:45-66
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.790273
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14719037.2013.790273
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14719037.2013.790273?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Pollitt, Christopher & Bouckaert, Geert, 2004. "Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, edition 2, number 9780199268498.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mora, Luca & Gerli, Paolo & Ardito, Lorenzo & Messeni Petruzzelli, Antonio, 2023. "Smart city governance from an innovation management perspective: Theoretical framing, review of current practices, and future research agenda," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).
    2. Robb, Anna & Rohrschneider, Marc & Booth, Alex & Carter, Peggy & Walker, Richard & Andrews, Georgina, 2022. "Enhancing organisational innovation capability – A practice-oriented insight for pharmaceutical companies," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    3. Yingzhu Yang & Fengsheng Wu, 2022. "The Sustainability of the Project-Driven Innovation of Grassroots Governance: Influencing Factors and Combination Paths," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(24), pages 1-17, December.
    4. Tommaso Agasisti & Ekaterina Shibanova, 2020. "Autonomy, Performance And Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis Of Russian Universities 2014-2018," HSE Working papers WP BRP 224/EC/2020, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    5. Zeitlin, Wendy & Chakravarty, Sreyashi & Lawrence, Catherine & DeCristofano, Angela, 2019. "Direct practice contact: Predicting frontline child welfare workers' time with clients," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 9-15.
    6. Torugsa, Nuttaneeya (Ann) & Arundel, Anthony, 2017. "Rethinking the effect of risk aversion on the benefits of service innovations in public administration agencies," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(5), pages 900-910.
    7. Karo , Erkki & Kattel , Rainer, 2015. "Innovation Bureaucracy: Does the organization of government matter when promoting innovation?," Papers in Innovation Studies 2015/38, Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research.
    8. Edoardo Ongaro & Ting Gong & Yijia Jing, 2021. "Public administration, context and innovation: A framework of analysis," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(1), pages 4-11, February.
    9. Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif & Audretsch, David B., 2017. "Conditions for innovation in public sector organizations," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(9), pages 1681-1691.
    10. Ian Scott, 2021. "Context and innovation in traditional bureaucracies: A Hong Kong study," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 41(1), pages 12-22, February.
    11. Aldona Frączkiewicz-Wronka & Martyna Wronka-Pośpiech, 2018. "How Practices of Managing Partnerships Contributes to the Value Creation—Public–Social Partnership Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-25, December.
    12. Hennau Sofie, 2020. "The Relationship between Politics and Administration at the Flemish Local Level: Intermunicipal Differences Explained," NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 13(2), pages 141-160, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Dietrich Budäus & Dennis Hilgers, 2009. "Reform des öffentlichen Haushalts- und Rechnungswesens in Deutschland," Metrika: International Journal for Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 377-396, January.
    2. Dixon, Keith, 2009. "Calculative practices in higher education: a retrospective analysis of curricular accounting about learning," MPRA Paper 18295, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Kemmerling, Achim & Bruttel, Oliver, 2005. "New politics in German labour market policy? The implications of the recent Hartz reforms for the German welfare state," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2005-101, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    4. Tóth, Balázs, 2021. "Milyen kapcsolatban állnak a közszféra reformjai a gazdaságpolitikai paradigmákkal? [How reforms of the public sector relate to the paradigms of economic policy]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(2), pages 205-222.
    5. Cipolletta, Germano & Fiorani, Gloria & Matei, Ani & Matei, Lucica & Meneguzzo, Marco & Mititelu, Cristina, 2010. "Public Sector Modernization Trends of the Member States of European Union.Trajectories of reforms in Italy and Romania," Apas Papers 267, Academic Public Administration Studies Archive - APAS.
    6. Bellò, Benedetta & Spano, Alessandro, 2015. "Governing the purple zone: How politicians influence public managers," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 33(5), pages 354-365.
    7. Deborah Wilson, 2011. "Comparative Analysis in Public Management," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(2), pages 293-308, February.
    8. Independent Evaluation Group, 2008. "Public Sector Reform: What Works and Why? An IEG evaluation of World Bank Support," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6484.
    9. Alessio Conti & Giovanni Vetritto, 2019. "ICT from Below: ELISA Program and the Innovation of Local Government in Italy," International Journal of Social Science Studies, Redfame publishing, vol. 7(3), pages 70-92, May.
    10. Goddard, Andrew, 2021. "Accountability and accounting in the NGO field comprising the UK and Africa – A Bordieusian analysis," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    11. Christophe Favoreu & David Carassus & Christophe Maurel, 2015. "Strategic management in the public sector: a rational, political or collaborative approach? [Le management stratégique en milieu public : approche rationnelle, politique ou collaborative ?]," Post-Print hal-02152509, HAL.
    12. Yuzhakov, Vladimir (Южаков, Владимир) & Startsev, Y (Старцев, Я.), 2015. "Development of a Concept of an Interdisciplinary Research Program of Formation of Complex Methodologies and Techniques of Management Development in Public Administration [Разработка Концепции Межди," Published Papers mn37, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
    13. repec:cuf:journl:y:2017:v:18:i:1:moreno-enguix is not listed on IDEAS
    14. Rebora, Gianfranco & Turri, Matteo, 2013. "The UK and Italian research assessment exercises face to face," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(9), pages 1657-1666.
    15. Anne Junor & John O'Brien & Michael O'Donnell, 2009. "Welfare wars: public service frontline absenteeism as collective resistance," Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 6(1/2), pages 26-40, March.
    16. Ahmed Huque, 2013. "Can Public Management Contribute to Governance in Developing Countries?," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 13(4), pages 397-409, December.
    17. Odeck, James & Høyem, Harald, 2021. "The impact of competitive tendering on operational costs and market concentration in public transport: The Norwegian car ferry services," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    18. van der Voet, Joris, 2014. "The effectiveness and specificity of change management in a public organization: Transformational leadership and a bureaucratic organizational structure," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 373-382.
    19. Regina Pacheco, 2013. "Arm’s Length Bodies in Brazil: Contradictions and Challenges," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 13(2), pages 131-141, June.
    20. Oliver Bruttel, 2005. "Are Employment Zones Successful? Evidence From the First Four Years," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 20(4), pages 389-403, November.
    21. James L. Chan & Xiaohu Wang, 2018. "Debate: What is public administration? PA with contemporary Chinese characteristics," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(1), pages 51-52, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:16:y:2014:i:1:p:45-66. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RPXM20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.