Publication
Title
Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership
Author
Abstract
Recent innovation research in the public sector demonstrates the advantages of collaborative innovation, but also recognizes the complex character of collaborative innovation processes. These complexities might both stimulate and hinder collaborative innovation. Through a qualitative comparative analysis of empirical data from 19 public-private innovation partnerships (PPIs) in five European Countries, we show how particular types of complexity leadership (i.e., generative leadership and administrative leadership) act on these complexities in PPIs to produce highly innovative services. The results show that small partnerships use generative leadership in the presence of network complexities, and administrative leadership in the absence of network complexities to produce highly innovative services. However, large partnerships only use generative leadership, while abandoning administrative leadership, to produce highly innovative services. These findings bring about theoretical and practical insights as to how various forms of complexity leadership might be employed in varying contexts of partnership complexity.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Public administration / Royal Institute of Public Administration [London] - London, 1926, currens
Publication
Hoboken : Wiley , 2023
ISSN
0033-3298 [print]
1467-9299 [online]
DOI
10.1111/PADM.12958
Volume/pages
(2023) , p. 1-17
ISI
001062641200001
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The author-created version that incorporates referee comments and is the accepted for publication version Available from 06.09.2024
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Transforming into Open, Innovative and Collaborative Governments (TROPICO).
Publication type
Subject
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 02.10.2023
Last edited 10.03.2024
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